The fairwork foundation: Strategies for improving platform work
| dc.contributor.author | Graham, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.author | Woodcock, Jamie | |
| dc.contributor.author | du Toit, Darcy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-18T09:51:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-18T09:51:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | s paper introduces the Fairwork Foundation, a research initiative that is also developing an interventionaroundthequalityofworkondigitallabourplatforms.Lackingtheabilitytocollectivelybargain,manyplatformworkershavelittleabilitytonegotiatewagesorworkingconditionswiththeiremployers.Asaresultofthisnew,digitally-managed market for work, many workers have jobs characterised by long and irregular hours, lowincome, and high stress. Fairwork's field research across India and South Africa finds challenges for workersacross a range of issues which form the basis for a set of decent work principles on: pay, conditions, contracts,management,andrepresentation.Theresultsofthefieldresearcharebeingusedtorankandcompareplatformsagainst these principles as a means to encourage decent, and discourage ‘un-decent’ platform work. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | du Toit, D. et al. (2020). The fairwork foundation: Strategies for improving platform work. Geoforum, 112,100-103 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0016-7185 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.023 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/6301 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.subject | Decent work | en_US |
| dc.subject | Platform economy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Digital labour | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gig economy | en_US |
| dc.title | The fairwork foundation: Strategies for improving platform work | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |