Digital Work Platforms at the Interface of Labour Law: Regulating Market Organisers

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Title

Digital Work Platforms at the Interface of Labour Law: Regulating Market Organisers

Subject

Digital communications

Description

This open access book shows how to design labour rights to effectively protect digital platform workers, organise accountability on digital work platforms, and guarantee workers’ collective representation and action. It acknowledges that digital work platforms entail enormous risks for workers, and at the same time it reveals the extent to which labour law is in need of reconstruction. The book focusses on the conceptual links – often overlooked in the past – between labour law’s categories and its regulatory approaches. By explaining and analysing the wealth of approaches that deconstruct and reconceptualise labour law, the book uncovers the organisational ideas that permeate labour law’s categories as well as its policy approaches in a variety of jurisdictions. These ideas reveal a lack of fit between labour law’s traditional concepts and digital platform work: digital work platforms rarely behave like hierarchical organisations; instead, they more often function as market organisers. The book provides a fresh perspective for international academic and policy debates on the regulation of digital work platforms, as well as on the purposes and foundations of labour law. It offers a way out of the impasse the debate around labour law classification has reached, by showing what labour law could learn from digital law approaches to platforms – and vice versa. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Creator

Kocher, Eva

Source

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85319

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Date

2022

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Relation

10.5040/9781509949885

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

9781509949854, 9781509949878, 9781509949861

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