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  • Symposium on work in the ‘gig’ economy: Introduction

  • Frances Flanagan
  • Journal:
    The Economic and Labour Relations Review / Volume 28 / Issue 3 / September 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2023, pp. 378-381
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  • This introduction overviews four approaches to theoretical and empirical research on the ‘gig’ economy, framing them within the concept of the ‘fissuring of the workplace’. It outlines arguments that ‘gig’ or digital work is not a new phenomenon but a resurgence of older, unregulated labour extraction methods and outlines the need for a more nuanced way of measuring the dimensions of job insecurity and their corrosive effects. In foreshadowing potential policy approaches to addressing the regulatory deficit surrounding gig economy work, it argues for an eclectic approach to using and strengthening legislation designed to safeguard the rights of consumers and providers of services, including contractors, and regardless of employment status. Finally, it foreshadows a study of how a successful union movement respond to the gig economy – negotiation with a digital platform to bring advertised hourly pay rates into line with the minima set within the industrial relations system for employment in the relevant industries.

  • 21 - The Fissured Welfare State

  • from Part V - Labor and Democracy Sectoral Case Studies: Platform Workers, Higher Education, and the Care Industry
  • Edited by Angela B. Cornell, Cornell University, New York, Mark Barenberg, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
    Published online:
    25 January 2022
    Print publication:
    20 January 2022, pp 334-350

  • Summary

    This chapter argues that the origins of the worsening exploitation of American labor lie in the social division of labor, in particular the rise of the care economy – the greatest factor in the growth of low-wage work. The care economy was organized politically at a deeper institutional level than labor market changes of the last forty years, on which pro-labor scholars and activists have often focused. Since the post-war years, care work has been governed at a distance, its terms set by the public sector and its administration carried out privately. The growth of care work under such conditions pits workers and clients against each other, but simultaneously creates the possibility of solidarity.