Loading...

Research Portal

Faculty of Law | University of the Western Cape

Research Portal

Faculty of Law | University of the Western Cape

CENTRE FOR TRANSFORMATIVE REGULATION OF WORK (CENTROW)

CENTROW resources

law toolkit narrow

Featured
View by type
View all resources

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.


Featured resource/s

Featured resource: Collective Bargaining and the Gig Economy

Books and chapters

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/

Click here for more information

Preview resource

See cover image


View resources by type

Click to open Click to close

Academic journal articles

A Eulogy for the EULA

Access to social security for digital platform workers in Germany and in Russia: a comparative study

Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Labour Protection: Introduction

Big Data and Discrimination

Cleaning Up : A sociological investigation into the use of outsourced housecleaning services

Cooperative Enterprise as an Antimonopoly Strategy

Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Labour Law and Labour Market: Can AI be a Boss?

Global Labour Journal

Informal Economy, Independent Workers and Social Security Coverage in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

International Labour Review: Centenary Issue No. 1: Informality

Introduction—Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age

Justice on our fields: Can ‘alt-labor’ organizations improve migrant farm workers’ conditions?

Looking to the Other Side of the Bench: The New Legal Status of Independent Contractors Under the Italian Legal System

Solving the ‘Gig-saw’? Collective Rights and Platform Work

Spanish riders law and the right to be informed about the algorithm

The 'gig economy': Employee, self-employed or the need for a special employment regulation?

The Enforceability of Incorporated Terms in Electronic Agreements

The Future of Women's Work in Africa

The global governance of cyberspace: reimagining private actors' accountability: Introduction

The job quality in the 21st century: a road map to a new development model

The Road to Digital Unfreedom: The Threat of Postmodern Totalitarianism

THE SPANISH LAW ON DEPENDENT SELF- EMPLOYED WORKERS: A NEW EVOLUTION IN LABOR LAW

The status of self-employed workers in Spain

Trade unions and worker cooperatives: Where are we at?

UK - Status of Workers Bill

Commissions of inquiry

No results ound

ILO - conventions and recommendations

Recommendations

No results found

Submissions

No results found

View all recent resources

Click to open Click to close

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

Looking to the Other Side of the Bench: The New Legal Status of Independent Contractors Under the Italian Legal System

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

THE WORLD OF WORK RE-IMAGINED

UK - Status of Workers Bill

Celebrating the Centenary of the International Labour Review

Platform labour in search of value: A study of workers’ organizing practices and business models in the digital economy

Adapting to the "new normal" for unions - New Digital Lab report

Platform labour in search of value: A study of workers' organising practices and business models in the digital economy

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

FOUNDATIONS FOR A JUST AND INCLUSIVE RECOVERY ECONOMIC SECURITY, HEALTH AND SAFETY, AND AGENCY AND VOICE IN THE COVID-19 ERA

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].

‘Don’t GIG up!’ Report

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

Global Labour Journal