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The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins
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Online gig work is becoming increasingly important to workers living in low- and middle-income countries. Our multi-year and multi-method research project shows that online gig work brings about rewards such as potential higher incomes and increased worker autonomy, but also risks such as social isolation, lack of work–life balance, discrimination, and predatory intermediaries. We also note that online gig work platforms mostly operate outside regulatory and normative frameworks that could...
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- Published
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International Development Research Centre
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- Publisher:
- Oxford Internet Institute Publisher's website
- Host title:
- The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins
- Journal:
- Oxford Internet Institute Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-01
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- pubs:701337
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701337
- Deposit date:
- 2017-06-19
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- University of Oxford
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © University of Oxford for the Oxford Internet Institute 2016. This work may be copied freely for non-commercial research and study. If you wish to do any of the other acts restricted by the copyright you should apply in writing to the Director of the Institute at 1 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3JS, England.
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