‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy

• Published in: Environment and planning. A Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 1643 - 1661
• Main Authors: Barratt, Tom, Goods, Caleb, Veen, Alex
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2020
• Subjects: migrant workers; Labour agency; gig-economy; labour market intermediation

Platform firm in the gig-economy are disrupting work as a social practice, production systems and recasting capital-labour relations. This qualitative study examines worker agency in the Australian food-delivery sector; a segment where platforms actively intermediate both product and labour markets....