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1. Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

   Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · 2019 · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2,493 cites

   We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor—the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in tasks it was previously engaged in, shifts the task content of production against labor because of a displacement effect. As a result, automation always reduces the labor share in value added and may reduce labor demand even as it raises productivity. The effects of automation are counterbalanced by the creation of new tasks in which lab

2. Platform labor: on the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-income service work in the ‘on-demand’ economy

   Niels van Doorn · 2017 · Information Communication & Society · 928 cites

   How does one value something one cannot and often does not want to see? How do contemporary digital platforms and their infrastructures of connectivity, evaluation, and surveillance affect this relationship between value and visibility, when it is mediated through the problem of labor as at once a commodity and a lived experience? And how can these infrastructures be mobilized in projects that aim to build different kinds of platforms – the kinds that support the revaluation low-income service work? This essay addresses these questions by examining the gendered, racialized, and classed distribution of opportunities and vulnerabilities associated with digitally mediated service work, or what

3. Dependence and precarity in the platform economy

   Juliet B. Schor, William Attwood‐Charles, Mehmet Cansoy, et al. · 2020 · Theory and Society · 527 cites

4. Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa

   Mohammad Amir Anwar, Mark J Graham · 2020 · Competition & Change · 418 cites

   The world of work is changing. Communications technologies and digital platforms have enabled some types of work to be delivered from anywhere in the world by anyone with a computer and an internet connection. This digitally-mediated work brings jobs to parts of the world traditionally characterized by low incomes and high unemployment rates. As such, it has been touted by governments, third-sector organizations, and the private sector as a novel strategy of economic development. Drawing on a four-year study with 65 workers in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda, we examine the development implications of the gig economy on labour in Africa. We offer four analytical development di

5. Hidden transcripts of the gig economy: labour agency and the new art of resistance among African gig workers

   Mohammad Amir Anwar, Mark Graham · 2019 · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · 344 cites

   In this article, we examine how remote gig workers in Africa exercise agency to earn and sustain their livelihoods in the gig economy. In addition to the rewards reaped by gig workers, they also face significant risks, such as precarious working conditions and algorithmic workplace monitoring, thus constraining workers’ autonomy and bargaining power. Gig workers, as a result, are expected to have fewer opportunities to exert their agency – particularly so for workers in Africa, where the high proportion of informal economy and a lack of employment opportunities in local labour markets already constrain workers’ ability to earn livelihoods. Instead, we demonstrate how remote workers in Africa

6. Conceptualizing human resource management in the gig economy

   Jeroen Meijerink, Anne E. Keegan · 2019 · Journal of Managerial Psychology · 319 cites

   Purpose Although it is transforming the meaning of employment for many people, little is known about the implications of the gig economy for human resource management (HRM) theory and practice. The purpose of this paper is to conceptually explore the notion of HRM in the gig economy, where intermediary platform firms design and implement HRM activities while simultaneously trying to avoid the establishment of employment relationships with gig workers. Design/methodology/approach To conceptualize HRM in the gig economy, the authors offer a novel ecosystem perspective to develop propositions on the role and implementation of HRM activities in the gig economy. Findings The authors show that HRM

7. Platform Capitalism’s Hidden Abode: Producing Data Assets in the Gig Economy

   Niels van Doorn, Adam Badger · 2020 · Antipode · 276 cites

   Abstract In this article, we argue that the governance of gig work under conditions of financialised platform capitalism is characterised by a process that we call “dual value production”: the monetary value produced by the service provided is augmented by the use and speculative value of the data produced before, during, and after service provision. App‐governed gig workers hence function as pivotal conduits in software systems that produce digital data as a particular asset class. We reflect on the production of data assets and the unequal distribution of opportunities for their valorisation, after which we survey a number of strategies seeking data‐centric worker empowerment. These strate

8. Should we take the gig economy seriously?

   Joshua Healy, Daniel J. Nicholson, Andreas Pekarek · 2017 · Labour & Industry a journal of the social and economic relations of work · 245 cites

   The ‘gig economy’ has emerged rapidly as a form of service delivery that challenges existing business models, labour-management practices, and regulations. The ways in which platform companies transact with workers, in particular, has created a burgeoning public interest, but has yet to give rise to a corresponding academic literature. In this paper, we ask whether the gig economy deserves to be a subject of employment relations scholarship, given its current dimensions and likely future. We argue that academic analysis is needed, to better understand the power dynamics operating within the gig economy and how these are testing existing norms and institutions. We discuss two mains ways that