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An Urgent Call for Fair Working Conditions in Africa
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork; African Platform Workers Representatives (APWR) (2024), 10 pp.
"The APWR calls on regional institutions and national government agencies to consider the following recommendations: 1. Standardise commission rates [...]
2. Mandate platforms to provide risk mitigation strategies and safety nets [...]
3. The contracts and/or terms and conditions must be subject to
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Fairwork Chile Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Santiago; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 35 pp.
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Data work—the routinized, information-processing operations that support artificial intelligence systems—has been portrayed as a source of both economic opportunity and exploitation. Existing research on the moral economy of data work focuses on platforms where individuals anonymously complete
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“O Ever Youthful, O Ever Weeping”: Exploring Youth Empowerment through Platform-Dependent Creative Labor in China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1225-1245
"This study presents “platform-dependent creative labor” as a typology for exploring youth empowerment through the performance of creative labor on Bilibili, the most prevalent Chinese digital entertainment platform among young people. It employs digital ethnography and semistructured interviews
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Knowledge Workers of the Digital World, Unite! Knowledge Workers’ Workplace Surveillance and Hidden Transcripts in China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3163-3184
"In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the purposes of labor control and surveillance. This trend significantly affects the knowledge workers who are deeply connected with ICT. However, there is a lack of studies tackl
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Performing Technocapitalism
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Hans Böckler Stiftung (2024), 298 pp.
"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev
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Fairwork India Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Bangalore; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 39 pp.
"1. Only bigbasket and Urban Company were awarded the first point under Fair Pay for instituting a minimum wage policy that guaranteed all their workers earn at least the hourly local minimum wage after factoring in work-related costs. No platform earned the second point under Fair Pay, which requir
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Fairwork Ecuador Ratings 2023: Working Conditions in Unsafe Contexts
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Georgia Ratings 2023: Old Challenges and New Forms of Work in the Neoliberal Paradise
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.
Algorithmic transparency and accountability in the world of work: A mapping study into the activities of trade unions
Algorithm Watch; International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) (2023), 29 pp.
"This report, prepared by AlgorithmWatch for the ITUC, looks at examples from around the world of how unions are tackling the crucial issues of transparency and regulation in relation to algorithms. It reveals that while there is a substantial and growing body of trade union knowledge and policy, th
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Fairwork Albania Ratings 2023: Assessing Work in the Albanian Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.
Gender and Platform Work: Beyond Technosolutionism
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.
Fairwork Bosnia and Herzegovina Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Indonesia Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork South Africa Ratings 2023: Advocating for Safety and Dignity in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Kenya Ratings 2023: The Promise and Peril of Platform Work in the Kenyan Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Uganda Ratings 2023: A Need for Pro-Worker Change
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 33 pp.
"In 2023, Fairwork conducted the first year of research in Uganda among twelve selected digital platforms. The selected platforms are in the sectors of ride hailing and food delivery. The research and rating of platforms was done as per the five Fairwork principles." (Executive Summary)
Fairwork Morocco Ratings 2023: Assessing Working Conditions in the Moroccan Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.
