iLABOUR SIGNED
Online Labour: The Construction of Labour Markets, Institutions and Movements on the Internet
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Project "iLABOUR" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
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| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Project website | http://ilabour.oii.ox.ac.uk |
| Total cost | 1˙499˙911 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙499˙911 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2014-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-09-01 to 2020-08-31 |
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| 1 | THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | UK (OXFORD) | coordinator | 1˙499˙911.00 |
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Project objective
'World Bank, EC Joint Research Centre, and other bodies have recently highlighted the potential of online labour markets to boost employment and economic growth. While national job markets have stagnated, online labour markets that connect firms with knowledge and service workers around the world have grown up to 60% a year.
An overlooked aspect of these markets is that they extricate workers and employers from national institutional frameworks, such as employment law and collective bargaining, and instead impose their own, technologically enforced institutions. For example, a leading marketplace recently instated a global minimum wage of 4.00 USD/h. With over 540,000 employers and 4,000,000 registered workers in 180 countries, this Californian company is making critical labour policy decisions that influence businesses and individuals from Berlin to Manila.
The objective of this project is to lay bare the politics and institutions of these next-generation labour markets promoted with discourses of technological progress. Whose interests find expression in their institutions? Some online workers have begun to organize transnationally with the help of digital media. How do online labour movements emerge and assert power on these markets? And finally, to what extent are these relations still reducible to struggles between capital and labour, rather than more ambiguous networked models of production?
We will tackle these questions through a combination of conventional social research methods and innovative Internet research methods, on both virtual research sites (online labour markets and workers' online communities) and physical research sites (market operators' premises and worker gatherings). We survey, interview, and observe designers and workers to reconstruct processes through which online markets, institutions, and movements are shaped, and 'scrape' online data to quantify their influence. The results will open up important new vistas in labour policy debate.'
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |
Vili Lehdonvirta Flexibility in the gig economy: managing time on three online piecework platforms published pages: 13-29, ISSN: 0268-1072, DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.12102 |
New Technology, Work and Employment 33/1 | 2019-05-29 |
| 2018 |
Alex J Wood, Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Isis Hjorth Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy published pages: 95001701878561, ISSN: 0950-0170, DOI: 10.1177/0950017018785616 |
Work, Employment and Society | 2019-05-29 |
| 2018 |
Otto Kässi, Vili Lehdonvirta Online labour index: Measuring the online gig economy for policy and research published pages: , ISSN: 0040-1625, DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.056 |
Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2019-05-29 |
| 2017 |
Victoria Nash, Jonathan Bright, Helen Margetts, Vili Lehdonvirta Public Policy in the Platform Society published pages: 368-373, ISSN: 1944-2866, DOI: 10.1002/poi3.165 |
Policy & Internet 9/4 | 2019-05-29 |
| 2018 |
Vili Lehdonvirta, Otto Kässi, Isis Hjorth, Helena Barnard, Mark Graham The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders published pages: 14920631878678, ISSN: 0149-2063, DOI: 10.1177/0149206318786781 |
Journal of Management | 2019-05-29 |
| 2017 |
Greetje F. Corporaal, Vili Lehdonvirta Platform Sourcing: How Fortune 500 Firms Are Adopting Online Freelancing Platforms published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-05-29 | |
| 2018 |
Alex J. Wood, Vili Lehdonvirta, Mark Graham Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries published pages: 95-112, ISSN: 0268-1072, DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.12112 |
New Technology, Work and Employment 33/2 | 2019-05-29 |
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