Julia Tomassetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 6544301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Tomassetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomassetti |
| SIGNATURE | TOMASSETTI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6345-0637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms
Digital platform labor and its complex relationship with capital have stirred scholarly inquiry, calling for a systemic review that bridges foundational theories and various currents of development. In this review, we revisit Marxist and autonomist Marxist theses on the changing nature of work in the platform economy. Following that, we review two major strands of studies on the organization of production at the macro level and labour control at …
Managerial prerogative, property rights, and labor control in employment status disputes
This Article explores how managerial prerogative shapes disputes over employment classification and reveals a neglected but prominent feature in legal arguments about platform worker rights—the disputed relevance of a platform’s intellectual property rights. In classification disputes, instead of denying that it has a right to control how others perform services for it, the company often concedes its employer-like authority but offers an alternat…
The Powerful Role of Unproven Economic Assumptions in Work Law
Many rules and statutory interpretations in US work law that entrench employers’ power over workers rely on unproven economic assumptions. This article explores three. First, courts assume that the individual employee and employer have relatively equal bargaining power, an assumption often framed and defended within the circular logic of “freedom of contract.” Second, courts assume that the employer’s authority over the enterprise—its managerial …
Contract, Employment (Common Law)
Who Is a Worker? Partisanship, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Social Content of Employment
In opinions addressing whether graduate students, medical residents, and disabled workers in nonstandard work arrangements are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, I analyze partisan differences in how National Labor Relations Board members, under the previous two US presidents, confronted the contradictory permeation of wage-labor into relatively noncommodified relationships. I argue that Republicans mediated the contradictions by i…
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms
Digital platform labor and its complex relationship with capital have stirred scholarly inquiry, calling for a systemic review that bridges foundational theories and various currents of development. In this review, we revisit Marxist and autonomist Marxist theses on the changing nature of work in the platform economy. Following that, we review two major strands of studies on the organization of production at the macro level and labour control at …
Who Is a Worker? Partisanship, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Social Content of Employment
In opinions addressing whether graduate students, medical residents, and disabled workers in nonstandard work arrangements are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, I analyze partisan differences in how National Labor Relations Board members, under the previous two US presidents, confronted the contradictory permeation of wage-labor into relatively noncommodified relationships. I argue that Republicans mediated the contradictions by i…
Contract, Employment (Common Law)
The Powerful Role of Unproven Economic Assumptions in Work Law
Many rules and statutory interpretations in US work law that entrench employers’ power over workers rely on unproven economic assumptions. This article explores three. First, courts assume that the individual employee and employer have relatively equal bargaining power, an assumption often framed and defended within the circular logic of “freedom of contract.” Second, courts assume that the employer’s authority over the enterprise—its managerial …
Managerial prerogative, property rights, and labor control in employment status disputes
This Article explores how managerial prerogative shapes disputes over employment classification and reveals a neglected but prominent feature in legal arguments about platform worker rights—the disputed relevance of a platform’s intellectual property rights. In classification disputes, instead of denying that it has a right to control how others perform services for it, the company often concedes its employer-like authority but offers an alternat…
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms
Digital platform labor and its complex relationship with capital have stirred scholarly inquiry, calling for a systemic review that bridges foundational theories and various currents of development. In this review, we revisit Marxist and autonomist Marxist theses on the changing nature of work in the platform economy. Following that, we review two major strands of studies on the organization of production at the macro level and labour control at …
Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Corporate Law and Human Rights (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (2 works)