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The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It

Matthew Cole
- 18 Nov 2015 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 4, pp 679-682
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This article is published in Review of Political Economy.The article was published on 2015-11-18. It has received 209 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Work (electrical).

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The rise of the 'just-in-time workforce': On-demand work, crowdwork and labour protection in the 'gig-economy'

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the implications of this commodification and advocate the full recognition of activities in the gig-economy as "work" and advocate for the formal recognition of work activities as activities.
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The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995–2015:

TL;DR: The authors conducted a version of the Contingent Worker Survey as part of the RAND American Life Panel in late 2015, and found that the survey results pointed to a r... and a r...
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Regulating work in the gig economy: What are the options?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a model for paid work associated with digital platform businesses (in taxi, delivery, maintenance, and other functions) in which the application of traditional labour regulations and e...
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Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia:

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative case study adopts a labour process analysis to unpack the distinctive features of capital's control regimes in the food-delivery segment of the Australian platform-economy and asse...
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The Rise of the Platform Business Model and the Transformation of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism:

TL;DR: In this paper, the changing nature of twenty-first-century capitalism with an emphasis on illuminating the political coalitions and institutional conditions that support and sustain it is explored, with a focus on the role of women.
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Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century

TL;DR: In this paper, Ivanic explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum and considers ways of changing teaching practices to enable students to read and write more effectively.
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Fragmenting work: blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies

TL;DR: The authors examines the way in which employment is managed across organizational boundaries and analyses how public-private partnerships, franchises, agencies, and other forms of interfirm contractual relations impact on work and employment and the experiences of those working in these increasingly significant forms of organization.