The Fairwork Foundation

Strategies for improving platform work in a global context

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8944539
AutoresM Graham (0000-0001-8370-9848), Jamie Woodcock (0000-0001-7097-305X, The Open University), Richard Heeks (0000-0002-4551-2208, University of Manchester), Paul Mungai (0000-0002-9427-500X, University of Cape Town, autor de correspondencia), Jean-Paul Van Belle (0000-0002-9140-0143, University of Cape Town), Darcy Du Toit (University of the Western Cape), Sandra Fredman (0000-0002-4132-1164, University of Oxford), Abigail Osiki (0000-0003-3074-1291, University of the Western Cape), Anri Van der Spuy (Research ICT Africa), Six Silberman (Industrial Union of Metalworkers), Six M Silberman
Año2020
Volumen112
Páginas100-103
Fecha de publicación2020-02-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.023
OpenAlexW3007739468
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas35
Referencias citadas8

This paper introduces the Fairwork Foundation, a research initiative that is also developing an intervention around the quality of work on digital labour platforms. Lacking the ability to collectively bargain, many platform workers have little ability to negotiate wages or working conditions with their employers. As a result of this new, digitally-managed market for work, many workers have jobs characterised by long and irregular hours, low income, and high stress. Fairwork's field research across India and South Africa finds challenges for workers across a range of issues which form the basis for a set of decent work principles on: pay, conditions, contracts, management, and representation. The results of the field research are being used to rank and compare platforms against these principles as a means to encourage decent, and discourage ‘un-decent’ platform work

Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Context (archaeology · Engineering ethics · Engineering management · Foundation (evidence · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · History · Law · Mechanical Engineering · Sharing Economy and Platforms