Uber drivers are workers: the expanding scope of the worker concept in the UKs gig economy

Kenner, Jeff

doi:10.4337/9781788973267.00020

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Precarious Platform Work: Towards Normalisation Of the Pheno1

Mobilisation Of Platform Workers1

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“…A platform worker can find a job at any point in time in a remote location, and a company can hire a contractor to perform a specific task drawing from a huge crowd of workers (Huws, 2015). The discussion on platform work is intensifying not only in the academic world, and Uber has been on the forefront of this debate in several contexts (Chen and Sheldon, 2016; Kenner, 2019; Rosenblat and Stark, 2016).…”

Section: Precarious Platform Work: Towards Normalisation Of the Phenomentioning

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Unionisation and mobilisation within platform work: towards precarisation—a case of Uber drivers in Poland

Polkowska

2020

Industrial Relations Journal

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There are several barriers to the unionisation of platform workers. Based on in‐depth interviews with Uber drivers and trade unionists from Poland, it turns out that these barriers are related to the temporary nature of their work and the specific tripartite relationship within the framework of Polish platform work (driver, fleet partner and Uber). However, what is unique in this context is the ‘mutual invisibility’ of Uber drivers and trade unions, which intensifies the normalisation of precariousness of drivers' work.

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Section: Precarious Platform Work: Towards Normalisation Of the Phenomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They are not recognisable on the street, so it was not possible to build social relations. What is more, Uber does not treat them as employees, and the company views its own role only as that of an intermediary (Kenner, 2019; Vandaele, 2018).…”

Section: Mobilisation Of Platform Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%