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Collier, R.B., Dubal, V.B. & Carter, C. (2017). Labor Platforms and Gig Work: The Failure to Regulate. University of California, Berkeley. IRLE Working Paper No. 106-17.
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This paper provides a conceptual and theoretical overview of labour platforms, demonstrating how they represent both continuity and change in the world of work and its regulation. To examine the politics of regulating labour on these platforms it focuses on Uber, which is the easiest case for labour regulation due to its high degree of control over work conditions. Because Uber drivers are atomised and ineffective at organising collectively, their issues are most often represented by surrogate actors—including plaintiffs’ attorneys, alt labour groups, unions, and even Uber itself. The result has been a permissive approach by regulators in both legislative and judicial venues. If labour regulation has not occurred in this “easy” case, it is unlikely to occur in the case of other labour platforms.
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