Locating Unity in the Fragmented Platform Economy: Labour law and the Platform Economy in the United Kingdom
Mason, Luke (2021) Locating Unity in the Fragmented Platform Economy: Labour law and the Platform Economy in the United Kingdom. Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 41 (2). ISSN 1095-6654
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Abstract
The emergence of work under what can broadly be termed ‘platform capitalism’ has coincided with a series of parallel developments in industrial practice and technologies in the United Kingdom. Over the past three decades or so there has been a dramatic flexibilization of the labour market through a combination of deregulation, the normalization of atypical working patterns and an explosion in self-employment. The recent genesis of the so-called ‘gig economy’ can be seen as the apotheosis of these processes, in which workers are, ostensibly, recruited to complete discrete tasks, whether for the same or different end-users, rather than engaged in a single overarching relational contractual nexus. The United Kingdom has seen an explosion in these forms of working practice, in particular within certain industries and among certain demographic groups, notably younger workers.
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| Subjects: | CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-01 - computer science CAH16 - law > CAH16-01 - law > CAH16-01-01 - law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Luke Mason | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2020 09:19 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2022 03:00 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9185 |
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