Prakriti Dasgupta

Our #openaccess paper has now been included into an issue Volume 30(3) that looks at power relations in the digital economy.

@anamariadbs.bsky.social @padraigmaca.bsky.social

Interesting topical issues being researched at Cork University Business School! @ucc.ie

Pleased to see that Michael Burawoy's important article 'Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?' has been posthumously published by @sociologicalreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Don't miss our next AI Talk webinar! 💻

Antonio A. Casilli in conversation with @aida.follows.technology next week 🗣️

Register here 🔗 etui.org/ZLk

Congrats Tim! Will be looking to download and read!

Greater protections introduced for gig economy workers

📢 Australians working in the gig economy will now have greater protections, in a world dictated by trip ratings and reviews. Now new federal laws have come into effect, designed to ensure workers can't be just kicked off an app.

Excellent presentation by @t-vieira.bsky.social at CERIC Leeds! Watch out for all the amazing work he does 👏🏼🌟

Great few days spent at the @etui.bsky.social Future of Work Conference presenting a recently published paper - doi.org/10.1080/1356... New sites were seen, great beer was had and brand new friendships were formed 😃

WRC has rejected all cases taken under new remote and flexible working legislation All workers who have taken cases under new right to request remote working laws at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) have lost them.

All cases to date under new remote and flexible working legislation rejected by the WRC www.independent.ie/irish-news/w...

Many of the ideas emphasised in this paper are influenced by Burawoy’s ‘making out on the shop floor’, and this a tribute to his scholarship and influence on researchers like me who are not trained sociologist, in light of his untimely passing.

In this paper we critically discuss the broad spectrum of resistance approaches employed by platform workers, bringing attention to how the heterogeneity and novelty of some practices stem from the dynamic and complex #socialrelations of #platformwork, and conclude with a future agenda 💡

Social relations and worker resistance in the platform economy: towards a future research agenda This paper examines how the social relations of platform work shape workers’ acts of resistance. We critically discuss the broad spectrum of resistance approaches employed by platform workers, brin...

doi.org/10.1080/1356... #openaccess

Happy to now have another paper from the PhD out with @ronancarbery.bsky.social @amcdonnellhrm.bsky.social, and Stefan Jooss! 😊 This paper finds home in an exciting special issue on 'Power relations in the digital economy', which will be out in due course (Link to paper in comments)

What is the future for the corporate HQ? Some employers are doubling down on big offices while others move to smaller but better-serviced properties

What is the future for the corporate HQ?

https://www.ft.com/content/3db51ec0-4c69-4bff-ae23-33e932deee86

@anamariadbs.bsky.social

A Systematic Review on Worker Voice in the Platform Economy: The Constitution of a Grassroots Voice Mechanism This systematic review investigates why and how platform workers express voice in a context where institutional and organisational voice mechanisms and representation structures are lacking or absent....

A much needed inquiry into important issues affecting workers in the gig economy - doi.org/10.1111/1748...

Fantastic research @prakritidasgupta.bsky.social reviewing the mass of literature on platform work resistance - a great resource for future research

A Systematic Review on Worker Voice in the Platform Economy: The Constitution of a Grassroots Voice Mechanism

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...