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  • By Pietro Ichino Digital work in the transport sector: in search of the employer By Antonio Loffredo and Marco Tufo Labour law for TOS and HITs? reflections on the potential for applying ‘labour law analogies’ to crowdworkers, focusing on ganisation employee representation By Christina Hiessl Traditional and new forms of organisation and representation in the platform economy labour & By Karolien Lenaerts, Zachary Kilhoffer and Mehtap Akgüç Call centre workers unite! changing forms of organisation and globalis representation in the Portuguese and British Digital Economy By Isabel Roque

  • The globalisation of world trade in combination with the use of information and communications technologies is bringing into being a new international division of labour, not just in manufacturing industry, as in the past, and in work involving the processing of information

  • The implications of this are far-reaching, both for policy and for scholarship. The dynamics of this new global division of labour cannot be captured adequately within the framework of any single academic discipline. On the contrary they can only be understood in the light of a combination of insights from fields including political economy, the sociology of work, organisational theory, economic geography, development studies, industrial relations, comparative social policy, communications studies, technology policy and gender studies

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Work A new labour law for platform workers and umbrella companies

By Pietro Ichino Digital work in the transport sector: in search of the employer By Antonio Loffredo and Marco Tufo Labour law for TOS and HITs? reflections on the potential for applying ‘labour law analogies’ to crowdworkers, focusing on ganisation employee representation By Christina Hiessl Traditional and new forms of organisation and representation in the platform economy labour & By Karolien Lenaerts, Zachary Kilhoffer and Mehtap Akgüç Call centre workers unite! changing forms of organisation and globalis representation in the Portuguese and British Digital Economy By Isabel Roque. By Pietro Ichino Digital work in the transport sector: in search of the employer By Antonio Loffredo and Marco Tufo Labour law for TOS and HITs? Reflections on the potential for applying ‘labour law analogies’ to crowdworkers, focusing on ganisation employee representation By Christina Hiessl Traditional and new forms of organisation and representation in the platform economy labour & By Karolien Lenaerts, Zachary Kilhoffer and Mehtap Akgüç Call centre workers unite! Changing forms of organisation and globalis representation in the Portuguese and British Digital Economy By Isabel Roque. Review Jeremias Prassl, Humans as a Service. The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy By Elena Gramano

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