Minimum wages for online labor platforms?: Regulating the global gig economy

Alex J. Wood; Mark Graham; Mohammad Amir Anwar

doi:10.4324/9780429317866-4

Minimum wages for online labor platforms? Regulating the global gig economy

Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham, Mohammad Amir Anwar

School of Social and Political Science

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The rise of the “gig economy” has enabled Internet users to find new work previously unavailable to them. The “online labor platforms”, which constitute a global remote gig economy, enable clients to access worldwide labor power. This chapter discusses how these platforms work. Two hundred and fifty remote gig economy workers across ten countries and four continents have been interviewed along with platform CEOs and government and trade union officials. Moreover, a survey encompassing 679 Asian and African workers has been conducted in addition to an analysis of transaction data and observation studies. The authors conclude by cautioning against having online gig work function as an unregulated labor market and propose some suggestions to improve relationships and conditions between the employing class, the governing class and the working class.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Digital Transformation of Labor
Subtitle of host publication	Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare
Editors	Anthony Larsson, Robin Teigland
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	4
Pages	74-79
Number of pages	6
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000730784
ISBN (Print)	9780367330705, 9781032084930
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429317866-4
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2019

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Name	Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
Publisher	Routledge

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Minimum wages for online labor platforms? Regulating the global gig economy. / Wood, Alex J.; Graham, Mark; Anwar, Mohammad Amir.
The Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare. ed. / Anthony Larsson; Robin Teigland. 1st. ed. London: Routledge, 2019. p. 74-79 (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics).

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