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Social Dialogue in the Gig Economy
A Comparative Empirical Analysis
9781800372368 Edward Elgar Publishing
As our digital economy continues to expand, gig work becomes increasingly significant. This incisive book investigates the ways in which social dialogue can reinforce decent working practices and create inclusive workplaces in the growing gig economy, putting forward a framework for structured dialogue and collective bargaining among social partners, platforms, and workers.
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As our digital economy continues to expand, gig work becomes increasingly significant. This incisive book investigates the ways in which social dialogue can reinforce decent working practices and create inclusive workplaces in the growing gig economy, putting forward a framework for structured dialogue and collective bargaining among social partners, platforms, and workers.
Centred on four major case studies – Germany, Greece, Switzerland, and the UK – the book analyses the key challenges that characterise the varied European landscape of gig economies and workforces. With a particular focus on the hospitality, driving, and food delivery sectors, chapters explore the intersection of social partners’ responses and gig workers’ capacity to organise and build collective voice. Examining the complicated and overlapping linkages between workers’ rights, social protection, social dialogue, and decent work, the book aims to expose, and ultimately put an end to, precariousness and exploitation in the context of gig labour.
Integrating critical theoretical perspectives and methodologies with context-sensitive evidence, this book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of sociology, social policy, labour policy, employment relations, and human resource management. Its examination of timely questions of collective action and social dialogue in the gig economy will also appeal to activists, journalists, social partners, and policymakers.
Centred on four major case studies – Germany, Greece, Switzerland, and the UK – the book analyses the key challenges that characterise the varied European landscape of gig economies and workforces. With a particular focus on the hospitality, driving, and food delivery sectors, chapters explore the intersection of social partners’ responses and gig workers’ capacity to organise and build collective voice. Examining the complicated and overlapping linkages between workers’ rights, social protection, social dialogue, and decent work, the book aims to expose, and ultimately put an end to, precariousness and exploitation in the context of gig labour.
Integrating critical theoretical perspectives and methodologies with context-sensitive evidence, this book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of sociology, social policy, labour policy, employment relations, and human resource management. Its examination of timely questions of collective action and social dialogue in the gig economy will also appeal to activists, journalists, social partners, and policymakers.
Critical Acclaim
‘This is an excellent collection of research on the gig economy, providing much-needed comparative analysis that is too often missing from the literature. Throughout the collection, there are chapters that will appeal to students, academics, and practitioners who are interested in understanding the gig economy today.’
– Jamie Woodcock, The Open University, UK
– Jamie Woodcock, The Open University, UK
Contributors
Contributors: Simone Baglioni, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni, Johannes Kiess, Maria Mexi, Tom Montgomery, Konstantinos Papadakis, Luca Perrig
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction 1
Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Maria Mexi
2. The gig economy and social partnership in
Germany: towards a German Model 4.0? 18
Johannes Kiess
3. Social partnership and the rise of the gig economy
in Greece: continuity or discontinuity? 42
Maria Mexi
4. Regulating the gig economy: promises and limits
of social dialogue in Switzerland 67
Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Luca Perrig
5. Weakening worker protections? Uncovering the
gig economy and the future of work in the UK 90
Tom Montgomery and Simone Baglioni
6. Regulating digital crowdwork and the need for
global responses 117
Maria Mexi and Konstantinos Papadakis
7. Conclusion: The rise and growth of the gig
economy. Challenges and opportunities for social
dialogue and decent work 144
Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Maria Mexi
Index 159
1. Introduction 1
Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Maria Mexi
2. The gig economy and social partnership in
Germany: towards a German Model 4.0? 18
Johannes Kiess
3. Social partnership and the rise of the gig economy
in Greece: continuity or discontinuity? 42
Maria Mexi
4. Regulating the gig economy: promises and limits
of social dialogue in Switzerland 67
Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Luca Perrig
5. Weakening worker protections? Uncovering the
gig economy and the future of work in the UK 90
Tom Montgomery and Simone Baglioni
6. Regulating digital crowdwork and the need for
global responses 117
Maria Mexi and Konstantinos Papadakis
7. Conclusion: The rise and growth of the gig
economy. Challenges and opportunities for social
dialogue and decent work 144
Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Maria Mexi
Index 159
