#platformwork — Public Fediverse posts

👏 Proud to share that Mr. Manu Goswami, Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Vidyashilp University presented his co-authored paper 📄 (with Ms. Avi Singh Majithia) at the International Labour Process Conference 2026 in Leeds, UK.

The paper, “From Welfare Boards to Algorithmic Management,” examines India’s evolving platform work regulation and highlights its global relevance for protecting gig workers.

#PlatformWork #LabourLaw #GigEconomy #ILPC2026 #India #AlgorithmicManagement
#sol #VU

"For much of the 2010s, Nordic governments adopted a wait-and-see approach to platform work. Gig companies were framed as technological innovations rather than labor market actors. When regulation came, it often focused on markets rather than labor relations. Only recently have governments begun to address misclassification, proposing legal changes to strengthen the definition of employment. These efforts remain incomplete, contested, and slow — while platforms are already deeply embedded.

Gig capitalism’s Nordic success was not inevitable. It was enabled by concrete policy choices: deregulating taxi markets, tolerating legal ambiguity, and prioritizing competition over worker protection. The rise of gig work in the Nordic countries is not an anomaly. It reveals that the Nordic labor market model, often treated as universal, is in fact segmented and conditional. Strong protections exist where unions are powerful and collective agreements cover entire sectors. Where they do not, platform capitalism finds ample room to grow.

Gig companies did not overthrow the Nordic model but navigated around it — classifying workers out of existence, recruiting from marginalized segments of the labor force, and leveraging political willingness to reshape markets in their favor. The question, then, is not whether the Nordic countries can regulate gig work. They clearly can. The real question is political: whom the Nordic model is designed to protect — and whom it is willing to leave behind."

https://jacobin.com/2026/02/nordic-labor-gig-work-tech-platforms/

#Europe #GigEconomy #PlatformWork #Deregulation #Sweden #Finland #Norway #Denmark

"For much of the 2010s, Nordic governments adopted a wait-and-see approach to platform work. Gig companies were framed as technological innovations rather than labor market actors. When regulation came, it often focused on markets rather than labor relations. Only recently have governments begun to address misclassification, proposing legal changes to strengthen the definition of employment. These efforts remain incomplete, contested, and slow — while platforms are already deeply embedded.

Gig capitalism’s Nordic success was not inevitable. It was enabled by concrete policy choices: deregulating taxi markets, tolerating legal ambiguity, and prioritizing competition over worker protection. The rise of gig work in the Nordic countries is not an anomaly. It reveals that the Nordic labor market model, often treated as universal, is in fact segmented and conditional. Strong protections exist where unions are powerful and collective agreements cover entire sectors. Where they do not, platform capitalism finds ample room to grow.

Gig companies did not overthrow the Nordic model but navigated around it — classifying workers out of existence, recruiting from marginalized segments of the labor force, and leveraging political willingness to reshape markets in their favor. The question, then, is not whether the Nordic countries can regulate gig work. They clearly can. The real question is political: whom the Nordic model is designed to protect — and whom it is willing to leave behind."

https://jacobin.com/2026/02/nordic-labor-gig-work-tech-platforms/

#Europe #GigEconomy #PlatformWork #Deregulation #Sweden #Finland #Norway #Denmark

📢 Call for Papers! The 2nd INDL-MEA Conference is coming November 25–26, 2025 — fully online! Join the International Network on Digital Labor to explore #PlatformWork, #AI & #GigEconomy in the Middle East & Africa. Abstracts due August 31, 2025. 🌍
👉 https://www.indl.network/indl_mea_2/

📢 Call for Papers! The 2nd INDL-MEA Conference is coming November 25–26, 2025 — fully online! Join the International Network on Digital Labor to explore #PlatformWork, #AI & #GigEconomy in the Middle East & Africa. Abstracts due August 31, 2025. 🌍
👉 https://www.indl.network/indl_mea_2/

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6

#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork

I think what we're seeing in the #socialmedia, #platformwork and #AI spaces today are still reeling with the consequences of the 2008 #financialcrisis

What the market learned was that to be really successful was not to turn in the most profit, but to exit the realm of needing to turn in a profit in the first place. Become too big to fail.

Every single business now tries to become part of the territory itself, unreplaceable, ready for government handouts. And they're not afraid to lie for it.

I think what we're seeing in the #socialmedia, #platformwork and #AI spaces today are still reeling with the consequences of the 2008 #financialcrisis

What the market learned was that to be really successful was not to turn in the most profit, but to exit the realm of needing to turn in a profit in the first place. Become too big to fail.

Every single business now tries to become part of the territory itself, unreplaceable, ready for government handouts. And they're not afraid to lie for it.

Remember the pandemic that killed millions, halted our economies, tore apart our societies? It disrupted the lives of platform workers, as well. @ptubaro and I try to put a little order in our comprehension of it in our article for the American Behavioral Scientist journal. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642211066027 #openaccess #PlatformWork #COVID19

Remember the pandemic that killed millions, halted our economies, tore apart our societies? It disrupted the lives of platform workers, as well. @ptubaro and I try to put a little order in our comprehension of it in our article for the American Behavioral Scientist journal. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642211066027 #openaccess #PlatformWork #COVID19

How does algorithmic management influence working conditions? And can the concept of "algorithm governance" help us better understand how #labor platforms govern #work?

Read this new paper by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven):

➡ https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/4.3.6

via Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society #wjds #openaccess #AlgorithmManagement #AlgorithmGovernance #PlatformWork #DigitalLabor #GigEconomy #WorkConditions #LaborMarket #EmploymentForms #LaborRegulation #research #sociology #socialscience

How does algorithmic management influence working conditions? And can the concept of "algorithm governance" help us better understand how #labor platforms govern #work?

Read this new paper by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven):

➡ https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/4.3.6

via Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society #wjds #openaccess #AlgorithmManagement #AlgorithmGovernance #PlatformWork #DigitalLabor #GigEconomy #WorkConditions #LaborMarket #EmploymentForms #LaborRegulation #research #sociology #socialscience

RT by @EUCouncil: #PlatformWork: #EPSCO ministers confirm deal reached between @EUCouncil and @europarl_en on new rules to improve working conditions for more than 28 million workers across the EU.

Read more in our press release 👇
https://europa.eu/!M6YYTc

[2024-03-11 15:10 UTC]

RT by @EUCouncil: #PlatformWork: #EPSCO ministers confirm deal reached between @EUCouncil and @europarl_en on new rules to improve working conditions for more than 28 million workers across the EU.

Read more in our press release 👇
https://europa.eu/!M6YYTc

[2024-03-11 15:10 UTC]

Habemus Platform Work Directive

#PlatformWorkDirective #platformwork #eu #europeanunion #labourrights

Gig work file set to become key campaign fight for the French left https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/gig-work-file-set-to-become-key-campaign-fight-for-the-french-left/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Gigeconomy #legalpresumptionofemployment #leïlachaibi #Platformwork

Gig work file set to become key campaign fight for the French left https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/gig-work-file-set-to-become-key-campaign-fight-for-the-french-left/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Gigeconomy #legalpresumptionofemployment #leïlachaibi #Platformwork

So there is a new deal on the #PlatformWorkDirective after all. From what I hear, the key presumption of employment has basically been hollowed out by leaving it to member states. Now every state gets to decide for itself when a platform worker should be treated as an employee - which destroys the core objective of unifying platform employment across the EU. #platformwork #EU #EuropeanUnion #trilogue #EUParliament #EUCouncil

Macron vient de rejeter la directive européenne #PlatformWork, renforçant les droits des travailleurs ubérisés. Au Brésil, une application redonne du pouvoir aux chauffeurs Uber. Pour l’instant indisponible en France, StopClub donne tout de même de l’espoir aux travailleurs des plateformes. Enquête par @emmab https://basta.media/une-application-redonne-du-pouvoir-aux-chauffeurs-uber

🔴 Plus que 6 jours pour nous faire un don. Nous avons urgemment besoin de votre aide 👉 https://basta.media/don

Macron vient de rejeter la directive européenne #PlatformWork, renforçant les droits des travailleurs ubérisés. Au Brésil, une application redonne du pouvoir aux chauffeurs Uber. Pour l’instant indisponible en France, StopClub donne tout de même de l’espoir aux travailleurs des plateformes. Enquête par @emmab https://basta.media/une-application-redonne-du-pouvoir-aux-chauffeurs-uber

🔴 Plus que 6 jours pour nous faire un don. Nous avons urgemment besoin de votre aide 👉 https://basta.media/don

#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #FoodDelivery: "The knowledge that workers have of the systems they work under is an outcome of strategic choices by platforms and by workers themselves. Based on three initiatives undertaken by food distribution workers in Scotland, this article explores the obstacles that platform workers face when conducting inquiries into their systems of control, and investigates the potential for workers to overcome these obstacles through collaborative research projects. By drawing analogies from the history of workers' inquiries into changing labour processes, the article evaluates these three initiatives in light of previous efforts by workers to monitor complex and concealed management structures. It offers a new concept of ‘worker data science’ to describe the techniques, skills and methods that workers require to arrive at answers to questions that emerge through their inquiries, and concludes that such purposive science has the potential to equip workers to support one another and to resist and challenge some of the commands and calculations that emerge from platforms' hidden algorithmic systems."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ntwe.12286

#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #FoodDelivery: "The knowledge that workers have of the systems they work under is an outcome of strategic choices by platforms and by workers themselves. Based on three initiatives undertaken by food distribution workers in Scotland, this article explores the obstacles that platform workers face when conducting inquiries into their systems of control, and investigates the potential for workers to overcome these obstacles through collaborative research projects. By drawing analogies from the history of workers' inquiries into changing labour processes, the article evaluates these three initiatives in light of previous efforts by workers to monitor complex and concealed management structures. It offers a new concept of ‘worker data science’ to describe the techniques, skills and methods that workers require to arrive at answers to questions that emerge through their inquiries, and concludes that such purposive science has the potential to equip workers to support one another and to resist and challenge some of the commands and calculations that emerge from platforms' hidden algorithmic systems."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ntwe.12286

Après une nuit entière de négociations, nous venons de trouver un bon accord de trilogue sur la directive #PlatformWork

Même si j’aurais voulu aller plus loin, c’est une avancée importante pour des millions de travailleurs.

Uber n’aura pas fait sa loi en Europe !
💪✊
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Fil à dérouler : https://nitter.privacydev.net/leilachaibi/status/1734821419396030715

RT by @EUCouncilPress: Tune in to the #EPSCO Council for an update on
📌#platformwork
📌directive on limit values for leads

Follow the live session here 👇https://europa.eu/!WVvWb3

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/eri_dimopoulou/status/1729102845473964164#m

[2023-11-27 11:40 UTC]

‘I’m just constantly tired. Mel Stride made it sound like you can just log on and find an order, but there’s so much waiting around that you don’t get paid for… Yesterday I made £15.75 in three hours.’

The reality of being a Deliveroo rider over 50, suggested by the UK work and pensions secretary https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/05/im-57-im-just-shattered-the-reality-of-being-a-deliveroo-rider-over-50

#GigEconomy #WorkersRights #PlatformWork #EmploymentLaw

‘I’m just constantly tired. Mel Stride made it sound like you can just log on and find an order, but there’s so much waiting around that you don’t get paid for… Yesterday I made £15.75 in three hours.’

The reality of being a Deliveroo rider over 50, suggested by the UK work and pensions secretary https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/05/im-57-im-just-shattered-the-reality-of-being-a-deliveroo-rider-over-50

#GigEconomy #WorkersRights #PlatformWork #EmploymentLaw

@mikarv
Lezenswaardige draad #platformwork

@mikarv
Lezenswaardige draad #platformwork

Veale:
"The Council of the EU has slightly watered down the algorithmic management provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWork " @mikarv

https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/1669959912716214272?s=12&t=kKW9tARaqY_ZT2XIilOaEA

Veale:
"The Council of the EU has slightly watered down the algorithmic management provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWork " @mikarv

https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/1669959912716214272?s=12&t=kKW9tARaqY_ZT2XIilOaEA

The Council of the #EU has slightly watered down the #algorithmicManagement provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #PlatformWork #GigEconomy

The Council of the #EU has slightly watered down the #algorithmicManagement provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #PlatformWork #GigEconomy

💬"The Council's general approach is a first step but we demand a swift agreement for effective presumption of an employment relationship for platform workers and human oversight of algorithmic management", says our rapporteur @yonnecpolet.
👉http://europa.eu/!8dcnhJ #PlatformWork
RT @EU_Social: Good news on #PlatformWork!

The @EUCouncil has agreed its position on our proposal that will help millions of people working through platforms get better work conditions.

…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_CoR/status/1668620625408319495

#EPSCO | EU ministers for employment and social affairs have reached an agreement on #PlatformWork rules.

They also discussed #EqualityBodies, the #EuropeanSemester and #SocialDialogue.

More 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668292465189695499

#EPSCO | EU ministers for employment and social affairs have reached an agreement on #PlatformWork rules.

They also discussed #EqualityBodies, the #EuropeanSemester and #SocialDialogue.

More 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668292465189695499

👩‍✈️ 🚴‍♂️ 👩🏻‍💻 Delivery riders, drivers, babysitters and other workers who get work through an app or a website could soon benefit from better working conditions under new EU rules.

Discover more on who digital platform workers are 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective #GigEconomy

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668174838647734273

👩‍✈️ 🚴‍♂️ 👩🏻‍💻 Delivery riders, drivers, babysitters and other workers who get work through an app or a website could soon benefit from better working conditions under new EU rules.

Discover more on who digital platform workers are 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective #GigEconomy

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668174838647734273

#EPSCO | EU ministers for #employment & #socialpolicy meet to discuss:

🔷 platform work
🔷 equality bodies
🔷 lead limits for workers' health protection
🔷 employment policies in the EU

More 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective
#EuropeanSemester

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668143594488619010

#EPSCO | EU ministers for #employment & #socialpolicy meet to discuss:

🔷 platform work
🔷 equality bodies
🔷 lead limits for workers' health protection
🔷 employment policies in the EU

More 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective
#EuropeanSemester

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668143594488619010

In case you’ve been hearing about the draft EU #PlatformWorkDirective and wanted to learn more, our paper on its #algorithmicManagement provisions (w Six Silberman & @RDBinns) now out in the European Labour Law Journal.
tl;dr: generally v well drafted, novel aspects worth studying, may create unintended effects, could benefit from some tweaks to avoid tensions and to shore up its complexities in a situation of high power asymmetries. https://doi.org/10.1177/20319525231167983 #gigEconomy #platformWork

In case you’ve been hearing about the draft EU #PlatformWorkDirective and wanted to learn more, our paper on its #algorithmicManagement provisions (w Six Silberman & @RDBinns) now out in the European Labour Law Journal.
tl;dr: generally v well drafted, novel aspects worth studying, may create unintended effects, could benefit from some tweaks to avoid tensions and to shore up its complexities in a situation of high power asymmetries. https://doi.org/10.1177/20319525231167983 #gigEconomy #platformWork

The #LeedsIndex is an interactive, global employment relations analysis tool at the forefront of documenting platform workers’ protest actions around the world.

On March 27 the Leeds Index team will launch its interactivie #analysis tool for a global #database where #PlatformWorkers document their #protest actions.

Join this hybrid event either in London or online:
https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/events/event/881/launch-of-the-leeds-index-of-platform-labour-protest

#ResearchInformed #PlatformWork #TradeUnions

The #LeedsIndex is an interactive, global employment relations analysis tool at the forefront of documenting platform workers’ protest actions around the world.

On March 27 the Leeds Index team will launch its interactivie #analysis tool for a global #database where #PlatformWorkers document their #protest actions.

Join this hybrid event either in London or online:
https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/events/event/881/launch-of-the-leeds-index-of-platform-labour-protest

#ResearchInformed #PlatformWork #TradeUnions

'Just because it is digital, it doesn't mean the battle for our rights has changed' - women working on domestic work platforms across Africa run risks including underpay once costs of travel and data are deducted, assault, and pressure not to speak out https://bdnews24.com/the-long-read/65srfz2o8y

#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #DomesticWorkers #BizHumanRights #Africa

'Just because it is digital, it doesn't mean the battle for our rights has changed' - women working on domestic work platforms across Africa run risks including underpay once costs of travel and data are deducted, assault, and pressure not to speak out https://bdnews24.com/the-long-read/65srfz2o8y

#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #DomesticWorkers #BizHumanRights #Africa

‘The presumption of an employment relationship would not end self-employment; rather, it would end impunity for platforms’ - Aude Cefaliello on opposition to the European Union directive on improving working conditions in platform work https://www.socialeurope.eu/platforms-and-their-presumptions-of-power

#PlatformWork #GigEconomy #WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #EULaw

‘The presumption of an employment relationship would not end self-employment; rather, it would end impunity for platforms’ - Aude Cefaliello on opposition to the European Union directive on improving working conditions in platform work https://www.socialeurope.eu/platforms-and-their-presumptions-of-power

#PlatformWork #GigEconomy #WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #EULaw

🔴Back to What Truly Matters for the #FutureofWork

🗓TODAY - 11am

Join this discussion on how to improve working conditions in #platformwork, #artificialintelligence challenges, #youth employment & more...

🎙Moderated by our expert @[email protected].

🎟️https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/back-to-what-truly-matters-for-the-future-of-work-tickets-511847187717

🔴Back to What Truly Matters for the #FutureofWork

🗓TODAY - 11am

Join this discussion on how to improve working conditions in #platformwork, #artificialintelligence challenges, #youth employment & more...

🎙Moderated by our expert @[email protected].

🎟️https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/back-to-what-truly-matters-for-the-future-of-work-tickets-511847187717

#Uber launching "view as delivery person" amidst privacy concerns about what data couriers can see. Sounds nice, but Uber's drivers cannot generally see what you paid and what they get paid as a proportion — information they should be entitled to. https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571259/uber-eats-view-as-delivery-person-personal-info #workersRights #platformWork

#Uber launching "view as delivery person" amidst privacy concerns about what data couriers can see. Sounds nice, but Uber's drivers cannot generally see what you paid and what they get paid as a proportion — information they should be entitled to. https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571259/uber-eats-view-as-delivery-person-personal-info #workersRights #platformWork

New research by Ioana Cerasella Chis finds disabled people forced into work in the gig economy have to carry out significant levels of unpaid work to cope with the disability-related oppression and exploitation they face, which include austerity measures, uncertain working conditions, distrust and suspicion from employers and within the social security system, and increased social care charges https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-gig-economy-workers-must-do-hours-of-unpaid-work-to-cope-with-oppression/

#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #Disability

New research by Ioana Cerasella Chis finds disabled people forced into work in the gig economy have to carry out significant levels of unpaid work to cope with the disability-related oppression and exploitation they face, which include austerity measures, uncertain working conditions, distrust and suspicion from employers and within the social security system, and increased social care charges https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-gig-economy-workers-must-do-hours-of-unpaid-work-to-cope-with-oppression/

#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #Disability