TAGGED: Precarity (8)
2022-09-26
Niels van Doorn
research

Liminal Precarity and Compromised Agency: Migrant experiences of gig work in Amsterdam, Berlin, and New York City

This chapter examines what moves migrants in the Global North to take up gig work and stick with it for various periods of time despite its by now well documented precarious conditions, by...
Go to The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy
Open PDF
Liminal Precarity and Compromised Agency: Migrant experiences of gig work in Amsterdam, Berlin, and New York City
2022-09-21
Aleksandra Piletić
blog

Platform capitalism: a new era or business as usual? (Part II)

Gig workPrecarityplatform business models
Platform capitalism: a new era or business as usual? (Part II)
2020-10-19
GUEST POST
Laura Lam
blog

Have Platforms Become Part of the Immigration Experience?

Migrant laborlow income service workPlatformsPrecaritySensemaking
Have Platforms Become Part of the Immigration Experience?
Forthcoming
Niels van Doorn
research

From a Wage to a Wager: Dynamic Pricing in the Gig Economy

This is a contribution to a collection of policy briefs entitled 'Platforming Equality', commissioned by [Autonomy](https://autonomy.work)
Open PDF
From a Wage to a Wager: Dynamic Pricing in the Gig Economy
2020-07-27
Niels van Doorn
Eva Mos
Jelke Bosma
research

Disrupting ‘Business as Usual’: Covid-19 and Platform Labor

This article evaluates the impacts of Covid-19 on platform-based gig work. It notes a shift in the service market towards on-demand delivery at the expense of ride hailing and domestic cleaning....
Go to Futures of Work
Disrupting ‘Business as Usual’: Covid-19 and Platform Labor
2020-06-01
GUEST POST
Ana Guerra
blog

Managing uncertainty at their own expense: Brazilian Uber drivers facing the Covid-19 pandemic

low income service workCOVID-19UberBrazilPrecarity
Managing uncertainty at their own expense: Brazilian Uber drivers facing the Covid-19 pandemic
2019-06-08
Niels van Doorn
research

On the conditions of possibility for worker organizing in platform-based gig economies

Go to Notes from below
On the conditions of possibility for worker organizing in platform-based gig economies
2018-04-09
Niels van Doorn
research

A good hustle: the moral economy of market competition in adult webcam modeling

Go to Journal of Cultural Economy
Open PDF
A good hustle: the moral economy of market competition in adult webcam modeling