Workers, platforms and the state: the struggle over digital labour platform regulation

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dc.contributor.authordu Toit, Darcy
dc.contributor.authorEnglert, Sai
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-14T06:48:41Z
dc.date.available2023-12-14T06:48:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis chapter discusses the arguments made by digital labour platforms - and their supporters - in favour of self-regulation. Against their claims that platform self-regulation is a preferable alternative to state intervention, for the shared benefit of shareholders, workers, and consumers, this chapter argues that in practice platforms have mobilised existing laws when they found them useful, while leveraging their economic power and popularity to undermine others. This process has led to the weakening of labour regulations, the deterioration of pay and conditions for digital labour platform workers, and to the reshaping of state and national laws to the advantage of platforms. This chapter points to emerging alternatives in the form of regulatory initiatives from below, led by platform workers themselves, and amplified by a constellation of supporters.en_US
dc.identifier.citationEnglert, S., Graham, M., Fredman, S., du Toit, D., Badger, A., Heeks, R. and Van Belle, J.P., 2021. 10. Workers, platforms and the state: The struggle over digital labour platform regulation. A Modern Guide to Labour and the Platform Economy, p.162.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975100.00020
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/9246
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEdward Elgar Publishingen_US
dc.subjectDigital labouren_US
dc.subjectSelf regulationen_US
dc.subjectEconomic poweren_US
dc.subjectNational lawsen_US
dc.subjectLabour regulationsen_US
dc.titleWorkers, platforms and the state: the struggle over digital labour platform regulationen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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