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The App as a Boss? Control and Autonomy in Application-Based Management
Description: by Mirela Ivanova, Joanna Bronowicka, Eva Kocher, Anne Degner Drawing on interviews with self-employed riders at Deliveroo and employed riders at Foodora, we compare how the App affects the […]
Lost in Translation: Rana Plaza, Loblaw, and the Disconnect Between Legal Formality and Corporate Social Responsibility
Description: SSRN download: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3265826 Abstract: Canada’s largest retailer was a major buyer from factories in Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza when the building collapsed in 2013 killing 1,130 people. Most of the […]
Beyond National Systems, Towards a ‘Gig Economy’? A Research Agenda for International and Comparative Employment Relations
Description: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, December 2017, Volume 29, Issue 4, pp 247–257 Open access link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10672-017-9308-2
International labour standards and decent work: a critical analysis of Thailand’s experiences, with suggestions for theory, policy, practice and research
Description: Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources(2018) 56, 539–565 Open access link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.12190 Key points 1 The ILO labour standards are significant international conventions, recommendations, declarations and protocols that may […]
Presenteeism, Its Effects and Costs: A Discussion in a Labour Law Perspective
Description: ‘Presenteeism, Its Effects and Costs: A Discussion in a Labour Law Perspective’. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 34, no. 1 (2018): 53–76.
Work 4.0 and the Future of Labour Law
Description: SSRN link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3217834
Digital labour platforms and the future of work – Towards decent work in the online world
Description: Janine Berg (ILO), Marianne Furrer (ILO), Ellie Harmon (Encountering Tech), Uma Rani (ILO) and M. Six Silberman (IG Metall) Digital labour platforms and the future of work: Towards decent […]
Access to social security for digital platform workers in Germany and in Russia: a comparative study
Description: Forthcoming in in the Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal
“Negotiating the algorithm”: Automation, artificial intelligence and labour protection
Description: ILO Employment Working Paper N. 246/2018 Forthcoming in a 2019 special issue of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal on Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Labour Protection, guest-edited by […]
“Restoring the Rule of Law” through Commercial (Dis)incentives: The Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work 2016
Description: Anthony Forsyth, ‘‘Restoring the Rule of Law’ through Commercial (Dis)incentives: The Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work 2016’ (2018) 40:1 Sydney Law Review 93-122
Law, Politics And Ideology: The Regulatory Response To Trade Union Corruption In Australia
Description: Anthony Forsyth, ‘Law, Politics and Ideology: The Regulatory Response to Trade Union Corruption in Australia’ (2017) 40:4 University of New South Wales Law Journal 1336-1365
Justice on Our Fields: Can “Alt-Labor” Organizations Improve Migrant Farm Workers’ Conditions?
Description: Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review [Vol. 53, 2018]