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Labour law in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a newly emerging area of enquiry, and many people will be unfamiliar with its key concepts and preoccupations. Others yet will be well-versed in it, but always keen to widen their knowledge. Our Resources section is here to help in either case.
To assist scholars, researchers, practitioners, students, activists, policy-makers and -shapers, and the general public, we are curating a regularly-updated body of research and other materials. These range from leading-edge journal articles and reports by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to media reports, legislation, international treaties, and more. Think of our Resources section as the Teacher's Choice -- our Recommended Reading list for understanding labour law in the digital age.
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Featured resource: Collective Bargaining and the Gig Economy
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José María Miranda Boto and Elisabeth Brameshuber (May 2022). Collective Bargaining and the Gig Economy: A Traditional Tool for New Business Models. The book collects the results of the COGENS (VS/2019/0084) research project, funded by the European Union, that gathered scholars and stakeholders from 17 countries. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars, trade unionists, employers’ representatives and policy makers.
This open access book investigates the role of collective bargaining in the gig economy. As with the labour movement historically, the big question is whether individual rights for workers in the digital economy can ever become secure and meaningful in the absence of collective rights. And, as with the labour movement historically, the role of workers on the ground in defining their own forms of organisation and bargaining units. Despite its European focus, this book offers a basis for addressing these questions in a way that SA policymakers could be persuaded by and part of. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/collective-bargaining-and-the-gig-economy-a-traditional-tool-for-new-business-models/
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Collective Bargaining and the Gig Economy
CENTROW CoLab Conference: Platform Work and Inclusion: Ensuring Decent Work and Basic Rights
The status of self-employed workers in Spain
THE SPANISH LAW ON DEPENDENT SELF- EMPLOYED WORKERS: A NEW EVOLUTION IN LABOR LAW
Informal Economy, Independent Workers and Social Security Coverage in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay
ILO - Platform work and the employment relationship
Spanish riders law and the right to be informed about the algorithm
Subcontracting and social liability – Report & policy recommendations
Report:Subcontracting out :Case-studies in different-sectors
A Research Agenda for the Gig-Economy and Society
Celebrating the Centenary of the International Labour Review
Adapting to the "new normal" for unions - New Digital Lab report
International Labour Review: Centenary Issue No. 1: Informality
Introduction—Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age
International Domestic Workers Day, 16 June 2021
Work 2035 – How people and technology will pioneer new ways of working
Action Research Manual for Wine Farm Workers
Algorithmic assembly lines - Digitisation and Resistance in the workplace
Cooperative nuts and bolts: minimum profit plow-back rules
Platform work and the employment relationship
Taken for a ride : Litigating the digital platform model
Can Cooperatives Build Worker Power? Give platform co-ops a seat at the policy table
Workers' Voice in Platform Labour - An Overview
UBER drivers in South Africa : Employees or independent contractors?
App Workers United: The struggle for rights in the gig economy
Cleaning Up : A sociological investigation into the use of outsourced housecleaning services
Amicus curiae workshop on the EPSU case
Labour Court judgment in the matter of CHEP South Africa (Pty) Ltd v Shardlow N.O and others[2019].
The gig economy and covid-19: Looking ahead
Solving the ‘Gig-saw’? Collective Rights and Platform Work
Platform co-operatives – solving the capital conundrum
Working Paper Series: An overview of results from NIDS-CRAM Wave 1 2020