Resolving Precariousness: Advancing the Theory and Measurement of Precariousness across the paid/unpaid work continuum

Control and consent regime dynamics within labour platforms

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Milena Franke
Published in: Work in the Global Economy, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 149-175, ISSN 2732-4176
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.1332/273241721x16654825793852

The platform discount: Addressing unpaid work as a structural feature of labour platforms

Author(s): David Mangan; Karol Muszyński; Valeria Pulignano
Published in: European Labour Law Journal, 2023, Page(s) 14(4), 541-569, ISSN 2399-5556
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/20319525231210550

Mapping social protection coverage for platform workers: A comparative analysis of Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands

Author(s): Eleni De Becker, Hyojin Seo, Valeria Pulignano, Paul Schoukens
Published in: European Journal of Social Security, Issue 26, 2025, Page(s) 3-26, ISSN 1388-2627
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13882627241236489

<i>‘If we lower our responsiveness, the algorithm likes us less’</i> . A biographical perspective on (losing) control in the platform economy

Author(s): Mê-Linh Riemann, Claudia Marà, Markieta Domecka, Valeria Pulignano
Published in: Labour and Industry, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 155-176, ISSN 1030-1763
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2252609

Workplace change and institutional experimentation: a case study of service-sector work in Europe

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Paul Thompson, Nadja Doerflinger
Published in: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Issue 26/2, 2020, Page(s) 175-187, ISSN 1024-2589
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/1024258920918483

Dynamics of unionism in the platform economy: the case of the food delivery sector in Bologna, Italy

Author(s): Claudia Marà; Valeria Pulignano; Paul Stewart
Published in: The Economic and Labour Relations Review, Issue Volume 34 , Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 395 - 412, ISSN 1035-3046
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1017/elr.2023.33

Bringing Labour Markets Back in: Inclusionary and Exclusionary Solidarities in Platform Delivery Work in Italy and Belgium

Author(s): Bayurgil, ladin; Mara', claudia; Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: Journal of Political Sociology, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2950-2152
Publisher: Radboud University Press
DOI: 10.54195/jps.15367

Why Does Unpaid Labour Vary Among Digital Labour Platforms? Exploring Socio-Technical Platform Regimes of Worker Autonomy

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Grimshaw, Damian; Domecka, Markieta; Vermeerbergen, Lander
Published in: Human Relations, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 0018-7267
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00187267231179901

E-Democrazia al Lavoro: Effetti e Problematicità dell’Era Digitale

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano
Published in: Sociologia del Lavoro, Issue 160 (2), 2021, ISSN 0392-5048
Publisher: Franco Angeli Edizioni
DOI: 10.3280/sl2021-160001

Variations of Freelancers’ “Effort-Bargain” Experiences in Platform Work: The Role of Skills

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Karol Muszyński, Maite Tapia
Published in: ILR Review, Issue 77, 2025, Page(s) 742-769, ISSN 0019-7939
Publisher: Cornell University Press
DOI: 10.1177/00197939241268165

Informality of employment in digital domestic care platforms: A study on the individualization of risk and unpaid labour in mature market contexts

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Mara', Claudia; Franke, Lea Milena; Muszyński, Karol
Published in: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 1024-2589
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/10242589231177353

Controle en instemming segmentatieregimes binnen digitale platformen : Control and consent segmentation regimes within labour platforms

Author(s): Franke, Lea Milena; Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, Issue Volume 38, Issue 4, Dec 2022, 2022, Page(s) 517 - 544, ISSN 0169-2216
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
DOI: 10.5117/tva2022.4.004.fran

‘Digital Tournaments’: the colonisation of freelancers’ ‘free’ time and unpaid labour in the online platform economy

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Stefania Marino, Mathew Johnson, Markieta Domecka, Me-Linh Riemann
Published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, Issue 48, 2024, Page(s) 133-150, ISSN 0309-166X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead042

Product markets and working conditions on international and regional food delivery platforms: a study in Poland and Italy.

Author(s): Muszyński, karol; Pulignano, Valeria; Mara', claudia
Published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 0959-6801
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09596801211070802

Explaining Employment Effects in Multipolar Value Chains: A Cross‐National Study on Soft Drinks and Dairy Manufacturing in Europe

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Nikolaus Hammer, Nadja Doerflinger
Published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, Issue 59/1, 2021, Page(s) 25-51, ISSN 0007-1080
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12552

Control and Consent Regime Dynamics within Labour Platforms

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano; Milena Franke
Published in: Work in the Global Economy, 2022, Page(s) 149-175, ISSN 2732-4176
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.1332/273241721x16654825793852

Creative Labour in the Era of Covid-19: The Case of Freelancers

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka, Karol Muszyński, Lander Vermeerbergen, Me-Linh Riemann
Published in: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: ETUI
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3832553

Working Hard for the Ones You Love and Care for under Covid-19 Physical Distancing

Author(s): Lander Vermeerbergen, Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka, Marieke Jansens
Published in: Work, Employment and Society, 2021, Page(s) 095001702110215, ISSN 0950-0170
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09500170211021568

Neither precarious nor entrepreneur: The subjective experience of hybrid self-employed workers

Author(s): Annalisa Murgia, Valeria Pulignano
Published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2019, Page(s) 0143831X1987396, ISSN 0143-831X
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0143831x19873966

Bringing Labour Markets Back in: Inclusionary and Exclusionary Solidarities in Platform Delivery Work in Italy and Belgium

Author(s): Ladin Bayurgil, Claudia Mara', Valeria Pulignano
Published in: Journal of Political Sociology, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 2950-2152
Publisher: Radboud University
DOI: 10.54195/jps.15367

Challenging boundaries: exploring pricing strategies, and unpaid labour time to explain earning disparities in online labour markets*

Author(s): Uma Rani, Valeria Pulignano, Nora Gobel, Karol Muszyński
Published in: New Political Economy, 2025, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1356-3467
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2025.2462135

Introduction: institutional experimentation for better (or worse) work

Author(s): Isabelle Ferreras, Ian MacDonald, Gregor Murray, Valeria Pulignano
Published in: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Issue 26/2, 2020, Page(s) 113-118, ISSN 1024-2589
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/1024258920926444

Connecting at the edge: Cycles of commodification and labour control within food delivery platform work in Belgium

Author(s): Milena Franke; Valeria Pulignano
Published in: New Technology Work And Employment, Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 0268-1072
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.12218

Solidarity at Work: Concepts, Levels and Challenges

Author(s): Glenn Morgan, Valeria Pulignano
Published in: Work, Employment and Society, Issue 34/1, 2020, Page(s) 18-34, ISSN 0950-0170
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0950017019866626

When Accumulation Pressures Meet Regulatory Institutions: A Comparison in Logistics

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Thompson, Paul; Doerflinger, Nadja
Published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 0959-6801
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09596801211073599

Quality of working life in remote platform work: a systematic review of a fragmented field of research

Author(s): Claudia Marà, Lander Vermeerbergen, Valeria Pulignano, Karin Hannes
Published in: Employee Relations: The International Journal, Issue 47, 2025, Page(s) 1-33, ISSN 0142-5455
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1108/er-06-2023-0302

Determinants of union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions in the German and Belgian automotive industry

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Marco Hauptmeier, Dorien Frans
Published in: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Issue 29, 2025, Page(s) 121-138, ISSN 1024-2589
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/10242589231158066

Transforming Care Work within an Era of Changing Priorities of Care Policy

Author(s): Johnson, Mathew; Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1024-2589
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/10242589211029485

How state influence on project work organization both drives and mitigates gendered precarity in cultural and creative industries

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano; Deborah Dean; Markieta Domecka; Lander Vermeerbergen
Published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 0007-1080
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12737

Workers’ contentions over unpaid labour time in food delivery and domestic work platforms in Belgium

Author(s): Franke, Lea Milena; Pulignano, Valeria; Mara', Claudia
Published in: Work in the Global Economy, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 2732-4176
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.1332/273241723x16803276410614

Coping with precarity during COVID-19: A study of platform work in Poland

Author(s): Karol Muszyński, Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka, Adam Mrozowicki
Published in: International Labour Review, 2021, ISSN 0020-7780
Publisher: International Labour Office Publications
DOI: 10.1111/ilr.12224

Unpaid labour in online freelancing platforms: between marketization strategies and self-employment regulation

Author(s): Claudia Marà, Valeria Pulignano
Published in: SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO, 2024, Page(s) 130-148, ISSN 0392-5048
Publisher: Franco Angeli
DOI: 10.3280/sl2022-163007

The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano; Glenn Morgan
Published in: Work, Employment and Society, Issue Volume 37, issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 257–273, ISSN 0950-0170
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221122507

Unpaid labour in online freelancing platforms: between marketization strategies and self-employment regulation

Author(s): Mara', Claudia; Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: Sociologia del Lavoro, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 0392-5048
Publisher: FrancoAngeli
DOI: 10.3280/sl2022-163007

What Defines Our Unique Precarity? A Response to the Reviews

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano
Published in: ILR Review, Issue 78, 2025, Page(s) 265-269, ISSN 0019-7939
Publisher: Cornell University Press
DOI: 10.1177/00197939241284990e

Determinants of union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions in the German and Belgian automotive industry

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano; Marco Hauptmeier; Dorien Frans
Published in: TRANSFER-EUROPEAN REVIEW OF LABOUR AND RESEARCH, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 1996-7284
Publisher: European Trade Union Institute
DOI: 10.1177/10242589231158066

Production Regimes and Class Compromise Among European Warehouse Workers

Author(s): Nadja Dörflinger, Valeria Pulignano, Steven P. Vallas
Published in: Work and Occupations, Issue 48/2, 2021, Page(s) 111-145, ISSN 0730-8884
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0730888420941556

A global taxonomy of interpretable AI: unifying the terminology for the technical and social sciences

Author(s): Mara Graziani, Lidia Dutkiewicz, Davide Calvaresi, José Pereira Amorim, Katerina Yordanova, Mor Vered, Rahul Nair, Pedro Henriques Abreu, Tobias Blanke, Valeria Pulignano, John O. Prior, Lode Lauwaert, Wessel Reijers, Adrien Depeursinge, Vincent Andrearczyk, Henning Müller
Published in: Artificial Intelligence Review, Issue 56, 2023, Page(s) 3473-3504, ISSN 0269-2821
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-022-10256-8

FEAR AND PROFESSIONALISM ON THE FRONT LINE: EMOTION MANAGEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL CARE WORKERS THROUGH THE LENS OF COVID-19 AS A 'BREACHING EXPERIMENT'

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Riemann, Me-Linh; Stephenson, Carol; Domecka, Markieta
Published in: ESSENTIALITY OF WORK, 2024, Page(s) 57-79, ISBN 978-1-83608-149-4
Publisher: Emerald Publishing LTD

The Role of Unpaid Labour in the Family

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano; Glenn Morgan
Published in: Faces of Precarity: Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 114–129
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.47674/9781529220094.008

Inequalities in Neo-mutualistic Professional Organisations: The Boundary Work of Creative Workers in Italy

Author(s): Lucciarini, Silvia; Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: Professionalism and Social Change, Issue 1, 2023, ISBN 9783031312779
Publisher: Springer, Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31278-6_10

Social Network Employment Research. Tracing New Horizons in the Field of Work and Labour

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: Employment Relations as Networks, 2022, ISBN 9781003125730
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003125730

Labour Control and Commodification Strategies within a Food Delivery Platform in Belgium

Author(s): Franke, Lea Milena; Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMIC SUBJECTIVITIES. Edited by: Elisabetta Risi, Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano, 2022, ISBN 978-1-914386-32-9
Publisher: University of Westminster Press

‘Trapped in reviews’: the role of ratings and response times in shaping work allocation and time manamgement among platform freelancers

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Johnson, Matthew; Marino, Stefania
Published in: Research Handbook on the Future of Work: Decent Work in a Post-COVID 19 World., 2025, Page(s) 113-129, ISBN 9781800882744
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

The problem of unpaid labour in food delivery platforms in Europe: understanding the role of socio-technical and employment contract effects

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Damien Grimshaw
Published in: The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, 2025, Page(s) 133-149, ISBN 9781035321131
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Freelancing Platform Work and Precarious Careers

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Muszyński, Karol; Tapia, Maite
Published in: Research Handbook of Careers in the Gig Economy, 2025, ISBN 9781035318520
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

The Social Foundations of Precarious Work: the role of unpaid labour in the family.

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Morgan, Glenn
Published in: Faces of Precarity: Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 114-129, ISBN 1529220076
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.51952/9781529220094

The transformation of work: changing employment governance regime

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: Handbook of Industrial Development, Issue 1, 2023, ISBN 9781800379084
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781800379091

Researching Unpaid Labour within Paid Employment: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Sequential Approach

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Seo, Hyojin; Meuleman, Bart; Domecka, Markieta
Published in: Field Guide to Researching Employment and Industrial Relations, 2024, Page(s) 88-105, ISBN 9781035313884
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Working for Nothing in the Platform Economy. Forms and Institutional Contexts of Unpaid Labour

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Mara', Claudia
Published in: Issue 2, 2021
Publisher: Solidar Foundation

Creative labour in the era of Covid-19. The case of freelancers

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Domecka, markieta; Muszyński, karol; Vermeerbergen, lander; Riemann, Me-Linh
Published in: ETUI, The European Trade Union Institute, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1994-4446
Publisher: ETUI, The European Trade Union Institute

Does it pay to work? Unpaid labour in the platform economy

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Piasna, Agnieszka; Domecka, Markieta; Muszyński, Karol; Vermeerbergen, Lander
Published in: https://www.etui.org/publications/does-it-pay-work, Issue 5, 2021
Publisher: ETUI

Fairwork Belgium Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Author(s): Pulignano, Valeria; Mara', Claudia; Franke, Leamilena; Domecka, Markieta; Bertolini, Alessio; Graham, Mark
Published in: Issue 5, 2022
Publisher: Fairwork

Entrepreneurial opportunities and working conditions of self-employed online freelancers in the platform economy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s): Muszyński, Karol; Pulignano, Valeria; Domecka, Markieta; Potter, Jonathan; Halabisky, David
Published in: OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Papers No. 45, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2616-4353
Publisher: OECD

Does it pay to work? Unpaid labour in the platform economy.

Author(s): "Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka, Karol Muszyński, Lander Vermeerbergen"""
Published in: ETUI Policy Brief, 2021
Publisher: European Trade Union Institute

Workers’ Experiences of Unpaid Platform Labour as Intentional Action

Author(s): Franke, lea; Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: Issue 1, 2023, ISBN 978-3-98628-345-2
Publisher: FRIEDRICH-EBERT-STIFTUNG

ResPecTMe Technical Report: Survey Module of Unpaid Labour: Measuring Unpaid Labour within Paid Jobs

Author(s): Seo, Hyojin, Franke, Lea Milena, Meuleman, Bart, Pulignano, Valeria
Published in: 2024
Publisher: KU Leuven

ILO Yellow Report “Realizing Decent Work in the Platform Economy” - Focus on Care and Domestic Platforms

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano
Published in: 2025
Publisher: ITUC - International Trade Union Confederation

Uncovering unpaid labour: a qualitative study of platforms’ strategies for control and platform workers’ practices of misbehaviour in Belgium

Author(s): Lea Milena Franke
Published in: 2024
Publisher: KU Leuven

Exploring the Antecedents of Working Conditions and their Implications for Collective Action in Digital Labour Platforms

Author(s): Claudia Marà
Published in: 2024
Publisher: KU Leuven

Employment Relations as Networks

Author(s): Brandl, Bernd; Larsson, Bengt; Lehr, Alex; Molina, Oscar
Published in: Employment Relations as Networks: Methods and Theory, Issue 1, 2023, ISBN 9780367646677
Publisher: Routledge Taylor and Francis

The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the study of unpaid labour can help address inequality in precarious work

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka
Published in: 2025, ISBN 9780198888130
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Unveiling ‘Algorithm Governance’ Shaping Labor Platforms’ Strategies and Working Conditions in the Digital Era

Author(s): Valeria Pulignano
Published in: Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 2024
Publisher: Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society

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