This article evaluates the job quality of work in the remote gig economy. Such work consists of the remote provision of a wide variety of digital services mediated by online labour platforms. Focusing on workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the article draws on semi-structured interviews in six countries ( N = 107) and…
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Work, Employment and Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Labor Movements and Unions, Employment and Welfare Studies, Social Policy and Reform Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 4,322 papers, which have received 94,160 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Work, Employment and Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Labor Movements and Unions Employment and Welfare Studies Social Policy and Reform Studies Digital Economy and Work Transformation Work-Family Balance Challenges |
| ISSN | 0950-0170 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.18 |
| h-index | 135 |
| i10-index | 1,495 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Warwick |
| Journal website | wes.sagepub.com |
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Immigration controls are often presented by government as a means of ensuring ‘British jobs for British workers’ and protecting migrants from exploitation. However, in practice they can undermine labour protections. As well as a tap regulating the flow of labour, immigration controls function as a mould, helping to form types of labour with particular relations…
In light of the individualisation, dispersal and pervasive monitoring that characterise work in the ‘gig economy’, the development of solidarity among gig workers could be expected to be unlikely. However, numerous recent episodes of gig workers’ mobilisation require reconsideration of these assumptions. This article contributes to the debate about potentials and obstacles for solidarity in…
This qualitative case study adopts a labour process analysis to unpack the distinctive features of capital’s control regimes in the food-delivery segment of the Australian platform-economy and assesses labour agency in response to these. Drawing upon worker experiences with the Deliveroo and UberEATS platforms, it is shown how the labour process controls are multi-facetted and…
This article examines emotion in organizations and the emotion management skills organizational actors possess. While Hochschild's (1983) seminal work on emotional labour is perhaps one of the greatest contributions to our understanding of emotion in organizations, this article challenges key tenets of Hochschild's thesis and goes on to offer an evolved analysis of emotional labour…