Dublin Core
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