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Caleb Goods, Alex Veen, Tom Barratt · 1 Feb 2019

This qualitative industry case study evaluates job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector, one part of the growing gig economy where workers, as independent contractors, engage in digitally-enabled and controlled work that is remunerated on a piece rate basis. Using a multi-dimensional framework, we draw on worker accounts of economic security, autonomy and enjoyment…

Sarah Kaine, Emmanuel Josserand · 20 Aug 2019

The gig economy has captured public and policy interest and is growing as an area of academic inquiry, prompting debate about the future of work, labour regulation, and the impact of technology and job quality. This special issue provides a timely intervention into that debate with this article providing an introductory overview, positioning the articles…

1 Dec 1979

This is a study of the Australian ruling class - the main companies, the leading political groups and the links and conflicts among them. The author also analyses class inequalities in education, the development of children's ideas about class, the role of the mass media and the way class relations are cemented culturally and psychologically.…

David Metcalf · 16 May 2008

A century has passed since the first call for a British national minimum wage (NMW). The NMW was finally introduced in 1999. It has raised the real and relative pay of low wage workers, narrowed the gender pay gap and now covers around 1-worker-in-10. The consequences for employment have been extensively analysed using information on…

Edward Lorenz, Antoine Valeyre · 28 Nov 2005

There is an ongoing international debate over the way globalisation and inten-sified international competition are leading to a restructuring of management practices in Europe in order to achieve greater flexibility and cooperation at the workplace. A key focus in this debate has been on the diffusion of the ‘lean ’ or