📢 Call for Papers! The 2nd INDL-MEA Conference is coming November 25–26, 2025 — fully online! Join the International Network on Digital Labor to explore #PlatformWork, #AI & #GigEconomy in the Middle East & Africa. Abstracts due August 31, 2025. 🌍
👉 https://www.indl.network/indl_mea_2/

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

OnlineFirst - "Pressure and praise as an action research methodology: The case of Fairwork" by Mark Graham, Oğuz Alyanak, Alessio Bertolini, Patrick Feuerstein, Tobias Kuttler, Funda Ustek Spilda, and Jonas Valente:

#platformwork #platformeconomy #digitallabour

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X251336893

I think what we're seeing in the #socialmedia, #platformwork and #AI spaces today are still reeling with the consequences of the 2008 #financialcrisis

What the market learned was that to be really successful was not to turn in the most profit, but to exit the realm of needing to turn in a profit in the first place. Become too big to fail.

Every single business now tries to become part of the territory itself, unreplaceable, ready for government handouts. And they're not afraid to lie for it.

Remember the pandemic that killed millions, halted our economies, tore apart our societies? It disrupted the lives of platform workers, as well. @ptubaro and I try to put a little order in our comprehension of it in our article for the American Behavioral Scientist journal. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642211066027 #openaccess #PlatformWork #COVID19

How does algorithmic management influence working conditions? And can the concept of "algorithm governance" help us better understand how #labor platforms govern #work?

Read this new paper by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven):

➡ https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/4.3.6

via Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society #wjds #openaccess #AlgorithmManagement #AlgorithmGovernance #PlatformWork #DigitalLabor #GigEconomy #WorkConditions #LaborMarket #EmploymentForms #LaborRegulation #research #sociology #socialscience

Am Mittwoch wird hoffentlich die - leider verwässerte - Plattformarbeits-Richtlinie verabschiedet.
#platformwork

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/OJ-9-2024-04-22-SYN_EN.html

RT by @EUCouncil: #PlatformWork: #EPSCO ministers confirm deal reached between @EUCouncil and @europarl_en on new rules to improve working conditions for more than 28 million workers across the EU.

Read more in our press release 👇
https://europa.eu/!M6YYTc

[2024-03-11 15:10 UTC]

Habemus Platform Work Directive

#PlatformWorkDirective #platformwork #eu #europeanunion #labourrights

Gig work file set to become key campaign fight for the French left https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/gig-work-file-set-to-become-key-campaign-fight-for-the-french-left/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Gigeconomy #legalpresumptionofemployment #leïlachaibi #Platformwork

Europe’s Rush to Regulate #Tech: "In recent months, 🇪🇺 institutions and Council Presidencies have been so desperate to announce a ‘deal’ on major tech files 🤳 that they rushed negotiations at ANY price."

👉 https://www.project-disco.org/european-union/europes-rush-to-regulate-tech/

#AIact #DataAct #EMFA #PlatformWork #PLD

So there is a new deal on the #PlatformWorkDirective after all. From what I hear, the key presumption of employment has basically been hollowed out by leaving it to member states. Now every state gets to decide for itself when a platform worker should be treated as an employee - which destroys the core objective of unifying platform employment across the EU. #platformwork #EU #EuropeanUnion #trilogue #EUParliament #EUCouncil

Macron vient de rejeter la directive européenne #PlatformWork, renforçant les droits des travailleurs ubérisés. Au Brésil, une application redonne du pouvoir aux chauffeurs Uber. Pour l’instant indisponible en France, StopClub donne tout de même de l’espoir aux travailleurs des plateformes. Enquête par @emmab https://basta.media/une-application-redonne-du-pouvoir-aux-chauffeurs-uber

🔴 Plus que 6 jours pour nous faire un don. Nous avons urgemment besoin de votre aide 👉 https://basta.media/don

#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #FoodDelivery: "The knowledge that workers have of the systems they work under is an outcome of strategic choices by platforms and by workers themselves. Based on three initiatives undertaken by food distribution workers in Scotland, this article explores the obstacles that platform workers face when conducting inquiries into their systems of control, and investigates the potential for workers to overcome these obstacles through collaborative research projects. By drawing analogies from the history of workers' inquiries into changing labour processes, the article evaluates these three initiatives in light of previous efforts by workers to monitor complex and concealed management structures. It offers a new concept of ‘worker data science’ to describe the techniques, skills and methods that workers require to arrive at answers to questions that emerge through their inquiries, and concludes that such purposive science has the potential to equip workers to support one another and to resist and challenge some of the commands and calculations that emerge from platforms' hidden algorithmic systems."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ntwe.12286

Après une nuit entière de négociations, nous venons de trouver un bon accord de trilogue sur la directive #PlatformWork

Même si j’aurais voulu aller plus loin, c’est une avancée importante pour des millions de travailleurs.

Uber n’aura pas fait sa loi en Europe !
💪✊
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Fil à dérouler : https://nitter.privacydev.net/leilachaibi/status/1734821419396030715

RT by @schirdewan: After a whole night of negotiations, we have just reached a good trialogue agreement on the #PlatformWork directive.

Even if I would have liked to go further, this is an important step forward for millions of workers.

Uber will not have made its law in Europe!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/leilachaibi/status/1734841779818574323#m

[2023-12-13 07:44 UTC]

RT by @Europarl_NL: We have a deal on #platformwork.
Ambitious text on algorithmic management. And a step forward in tackling misclassification.

Result of many years of negotiations with heavy lobbying from Uber and other companies.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/kimvsparrentak/status/1734823880798216591#m

[2023-12-13 06:33 UTC]

RT by @EUCouncilPress: Tune in to the #EPSCO Council for an update on
📌#platformwork
📌directive on limit values for leads

Follow the live session here 👇https://europa.eu/!WVvWb3

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/eri_dimopoulou/status/1729102845473964164#m

[2023-11-27 11:40 UTC]

RT by @nvillumsen: On the spot @nvillumsen! We are witnessing a Uberisation of society in #platformwork. This is why we need proper rules in place on a European level. 👇🏽

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/busyhousewifeM/status/1724011030760558739#m

[2023-11-13 10:27 UTC]

RT by @NicolasSchmitEU: Before heading to the #platformwork negotiations, Commissioner @NicolasSchmitEU meets with the platform workers from several countries who have just cycled from Paris to Brussels in a bid for improved working conditions.

“The Commission is committed”

#LaGrandeLivraison

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/SiobhanBright1/status/1722315207651832057#m

[2023-11-08 18:08 UTC]