Online Labour: The Construction of Labour Markets, Institutions and Movements on the Internet

Project Information

iLABOUR

Grant agreement ID: 639652

DOI

10.3030/639652

Project closed

EC signature date 22 June 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 31 August 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 911,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 911,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Online Labour Index 2020: new ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market

Author(s): Fabian Stephany, Otto Kassi, Uma Rani, Vili Lehdonvirta
Published in: Big Data & Society, Issue Vol 8 Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/20539517211043240

ICTs and the urban-rural divide: can online labour platforms bridge the gap?

Author(s): Fabian Braesemann, Vili Lehdonvirta & Otto Kassi
Published in: Information, Communication & Society, 2020, ISSN 1369-118X
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2020.1761857

Antagonism beyond employment: how the ‘subordinated agency’ of labour platforms generates conflict in the remote gig economy

Author(s): Alex J Wood, Vili Lehdonvirta
Published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2021, ISSN 1475-1461
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwab016

One size does not fit all: Constructing complementary digital reskilling strategies using online labour market data

Author(s): Fabian Stephany
Published in: Big Data & Society, 2021, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage publications
DOI: 10.1177/20539517211003120

Distancing Bonus Or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of Us Online Workers in Times of COVID‐19

Author(s): Fabian Stephany, Michael Dunn, Steven Sawyer, Vili Lehdonvirta
Published in: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Issue 111/3, 2020, Page(s) 561-573, ISSN 0040-747X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12455

Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy

Author(s): Alex J Wood, Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Isis Hjorth
Published in: Sociology, Issue 53/5, 2019, Page(s) 931-950, ISSN 0038-0385
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0038038519828906

Online labour index: Measuring the online gig economy for policy and research

Author(s): Otto Kässi, Vili Lehdonvirta
Published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2018, ISSN 0040-1625
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.056

Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy

Author(s): Alex J Wood, Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Isis Hjorth
Published in: Work, Employment and Society, 2018, Page(s) 095001701878561, ISSN 0950-0170
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0950017018785616

The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders

Author(s): Vili Lehdonvirta, Otto Kässi, Isis Hjorth, Helena Barnard, Mark Graham
Published in: Journal of Management, 2018, Page(s) 014920631878678, ISSN 0149-2063
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0149206318786781

Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries

Author(s): Alex J. Wood, Vili Lehdonvirta, Mark Graham
Published in: New Technology, Work and Employment, Issue 33/2, 2018, Page(s) 95-112, ISSN 0268-1072
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.12112

Flexibility in the gig economy: managing time on three online piecework platforms

Author(s): Vili Lehdonvirta
Published in: New Technology, Work and Employment, Issue 33/1, 2018, Page(s) 13-29, ISSN 0268-1072
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.12102

How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment

Author(s): Otto Kässi, Vili Lehdonvirta, Fabian Stephany
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 53, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: European Commission
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13639.1

Dynamics of contention in the gig economy: Rage against the platform, customer or state?

Author(s): Alex J. Wood, Nicholas Martindale, Vili Lehdonvirta
Published in: New Technology, Work and Employment, 2021, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0268-1072
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.12216

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Public Policy in the Platform Society

Author(s): Victoria Nash, Jonathan Bright, Helen Margetts, Vili Lehdonvirta
Published in: Policy & Internet, Issue 9/4, 2017, Page(s) 368-373, ISSN 1944-2866
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/poi3.165

Other (1)

Platform Sourcing: How Fortune 500 Firms Are Adopting Online Freelancing Platforms

Author(s): Greetje F. Corporaal, Vili Lehdonvirta
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Oxford Internet Institute