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.

Item Type:	Article
Dates:	Date Event 1 March 2020 Accepted 5 February 2021 Published Online
Subjects:	CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-01 - computer science CAH16 - law > CAH16-01 - law > CAH16-01-01 - law
Divisions:	Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > College of Law, Social and Criminal Justice
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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