Digital labour platforms, including their management practices and extensive reliance on the self-employed, have attracted much attention, though usually from a worker rather than an employer perspective. This book chapter contributes to the platform literature by exploring how platforms utilise algorithmic and traditional management practices, and for which purposes. It features in the new Research Handbook on Self-Employment and Public Policy 

IER's Dr Jamelia Harris has published a new article titled "Digital Platform Work in Developing Countries: Enabling Capabilities or Perpetuating Dependencies?" in the journal Development.

In collaboration with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Dr Sally Wright co-authored a report on platformisation of work in Europe.

The report provides a first approximation to the emerging phenomenon of platformisation of work, with an empirical analysis of data from the new JRC Algorithmic Management and Platform Work survey (AMPWork) in Spain and Germany.

The Beyond 4.0 research project examining the future of work and welfare has just published a new policy brief on platform work. It is co-authored by Chris Mathieu of Lund University and Chris Warhurst of IER. It maps out key issues with the operation of the platform economy and offers recommendations for future policy development to better govern it. It arrives just as the European Parliament looks set to initiate new deliberation on this subject. Read more here.