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Casilli :mastodon:📢 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 <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> & <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GigEconomy</a> in the Middle East & Africa. Abstracts due August 31, 2025. 🌍 👉 <a href="https://www.indl.network/indl_mea_2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.indl.network/indl_mea_2/</a>

Weizenbaum-Institut📄 What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/wjds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wjds</a> paper, Rafael Grohmann (<a href="https://mstdn.social/@uoft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@uoft</a>) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.➡️ <a href="https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/socialscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialscience</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#work</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DigitalLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalLabor</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DigitalEconomies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalEconomies</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LatinAmerica</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/GlobalSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalSouth</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalSovereignty</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DataColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataColonialism</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/TechGovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechGovernance</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/WorkerOrganizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkerOrganizing</a> <a href="https://dair-community.social/@DAIR" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@DAIR</a> <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/towardsfairwork" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@towardsfairwork</a>

Toni AittoniemiI think what we're seeing in the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/platformwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#platformwork</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> spaces today are still reeling with the consequences of the 2008 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/financialcrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#financialcrisis</a> 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.

Casilli :mastodon:Remember the pandemic that killed millions, halted our economies, tore apart our societies? It disrupted the lives of platform workers, as well. <a href="https://social.sciences.re/@ptubaro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ptubaro</a> and I try to put a little order in our comprehension of it in our article for the American Behavioral Scientist journal. <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642211066027" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642211066027</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#COVID19</a>

Weizenbaum-InstitutHow does algorithmic management influence working conditions? And can the concept of "algorithm governance" help us better understand how <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labor</a> platforms govern <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#work</a>? Read this new paper by Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven):➡ <a href="https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/4.3.6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/4.3.6</a> via Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/wjds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wjds</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/AlgorithmManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlgorithmManagement</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/AlgorithmGovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlgorithmGovernance</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/DigitalLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalLabor</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GigEconomy</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/WorkConditions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkConditions</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/LaborMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborMarket</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/EmploymentForms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EmploymentForms</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/LaborRegulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborRegulation</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/socialscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialscience</a>

EURACTIV TechnologyGig work file set to become key campaign fight for the French left <a href="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" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">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</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Gigeconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gigeconomy</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/legalpresumptionofemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#legalpresumptionofemployment</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/le%C3%AFlachaibi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#leïlachaibi</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Platformwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Platformwork</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GigEconomy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FoodDelivery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodDelivery</a>: "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."<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ntwe.12286" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ntwe.12286</a>

Natalie Sedacca‘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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/05/im-57-im-just-shattered-the-reality-of-being-a-deliveroo-rider-over-50" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/05/im-57-im-just-shattered-the-reality-of-being-a-deliveroo-rider-over-50</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GigEconomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WorkersRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EmploymentLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EmploymentLaw</a>

Ellen Timmer<a href="https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mikarv</a> Lezenswaardige draad <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/platformwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#platformwork</a>

Ellen TimmerVeale: "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... <a href="https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/PWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PWD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> " <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mikarv</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/1669959912716214272?s=12&t=kKW9tARaqY_ZT2XIilOaEA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/1669959912716214272?s=12&t=kKW9tARaqY_ZT2XIilOaEA</a>

Michael VealeThe Council of the <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EU</a> has slightly watered down the <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/algorithmicManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#algorithmicManagement</a> provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... <a href="https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf</a> <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/PWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PWD</a> <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/PlatformWorkDirective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWorkDirective</a> <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GigEconomy</a>

Michael VealeIn case you’ve been hearing about the draft EU <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/PlatformWorkDirective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWorkDirective</a> and wanted to learn more, our paper on its <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/algorithmicManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#algorithmicManagement</a> provisions (w Six Silberman & <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/@RDBinns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@RDBinns</a>) 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. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/20319525231167983" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/20319525231167983</a> <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/gigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gigEconomy</a> <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/platformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#platformWork</a>

Stefan LückingThe <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/LeedsIndex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeedsIndex</a> 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 <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analysis</a> tool for a global <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/database" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#database</a> where <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/PlatformWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWorkers</a> document their <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#protest</a> actions.Join this hybrid event either in London or online: <a href="https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/events/event/881/launch-of-the-leeds-index-of-platform-labour-protest" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/events/event/881/launch-of-the-leeds-index-of-platform-labour-protest</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/ResearchInformed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResearchInformed</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/TradeUnions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TradeUnions</a>

Natalie Sedacca'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 <a href="https://bdnews24.com/the-long-read/65srfz2o8y" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bdnews24.com/the-long-read/65srfz2o8y</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GigEconomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DomesticWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DomesticWorkers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BizHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BizHumanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Africa</a>

Natalie Sedacca‘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 <a href="https://www.socialeurope.eu/platforms-and-their-presumptions-of-power" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.socialeurope.eu/platforms-and-their-presumptions-of-power</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GigEconomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WorkersRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EmploymentLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EmploymentLaw</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EULaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EULaw</a>

Euractiv🔴Back to What Truly Matters for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FutureofWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FutureofWork</a>🗓TODAY - 11amJoin this discussion on how to improve working conditions in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/platformwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#platformwork</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artificialintelligence</a> challenges, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/youth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#youth</a> employment & more...🎙Moderated by our expert @Theo_BGonse@twitter.com.🎟️<a href="https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/back-to-what-truly-matters-for-the-future-of-work-tickets-511847187717" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/back-to-what-truly-matters-for-the-future-of-work-tickets-511847187717</a>

Michael Veale<a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/Uber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Uber</a> 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. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571259/uber-eats-view-as-delivery-person-personal-info" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571259/uber-eats-view-as-delivery-person-personal-info</a> <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/workersRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workersRights</a> <a href="https://someone.elses.computer/tags/platformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#platformWork</a>

Natalie SedaccaNew 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 <a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-gig-economy-workers-must-do-hours-of-unpaid-work-to-cope-with-oppression/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-gig-economy-workers-must-do-hours-of-unpaid-work-to-cope-with-oppression/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GigEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GigEconomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disability</a>

Antonio AloisiThis paper reconnects seemingly unconnected domains such as <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dataprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dataprotection</a> & <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nondiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nondiscrimination</a>, thanks to examples from case law and legislative developments such as the proposed <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> Directive. To fill the gaps, it uses employee involvement as a ‘force multiplier’.

EU-OSHA<a href="https://respublicae.eu/tags/AlgorithmicManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlgorithmicManagement</a> is all about <a href="https://respublicae.eu/tags/PsychosocialRisks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PsychosocialRisks</a>. <a href="https://respublicae.eu/tags/PlatformWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformWork</a> is totally led by algorithmic management. ‼️It is important to think about what can we do to prevent <a href="https://respublicae.eu/tags/OSH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSH</a> risks for workers - Marian Schaapman, Head of Office, Working Conditions, @ETUI_org at <a href="https://respublicae.eu/tags/EUOSHAsummit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EUOSHAsummit</a> 🐦🔗: <a href="https://nitter.eu/EU_OSHA/status/1592473509774909440" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://nitter.eu/EU_OSHA/status/1592473509774909440</a>

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