Social Dialogue in the Gig Economy

A Comparative Empirical Analysis

Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni, Maria Mexi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80037-236-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Edited by Jean-Michel Bonvin, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Nicola Cianferoni, Scientific Officer, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO and Senior Researcher, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Maria Mexi, Senior Researcher and Fellow, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Chair, Digital Innovation – Global Excellence Network/Tech Hub, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland and a consultant at the International Labour Organization

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

Erscheinungsdatum	13.01.2023
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-80037-236-1 / 1800372361
ISBN-13	978-1-80037-236-8 / 9781800372368
Zustand	Neuware