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Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Digital labour platforms have been widely promoted as a solution to the unemployment crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic has also highlighted the harms to gig workers—who are exposed either to income loss, or to infection while carrying out essential work, but excluded from labour protections. We examine the COVID-19 policies of 191 platforms in 43 countries to understand how the crisis has shifted the conventions of the gig economy. Using a typology of “fair platfo...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1111/ilr.12222

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Wiley
Journal:
International Labour Review More from this journal
Volume:
161
Issue:
3
Pages:
413-440
Publication date:
2022-09-05
Acceptance date:
2021-06-28
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EISSN:
1564-913X
ISSN:
0020-7780
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1183815
Local pid:
pubs:1183815
Deposit date:
2021-06-28

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