The Gig Economy by Alex De Ruyter;Martyn Brown;

Author:Alex De Ruyter;Martyn Brown;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)
Published: 2019-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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9.See https://thecasualcapitalist.com/the-sharing-economy/gig-economy-platforms-top-ten/ (accessed 9 February 2018).

10.Wider measures of “related forms” of work reveal that “[i]n May 2017, there were 10.6 million independent contractors (6.9 percent of total employment), 2.6 million on-call workers (1.7 percent of total employment), 1.4 million temporary help agency workers (0.9 percent of total employment), and 933,000 workers provided by contract firms (0.6 percent of total employment)” (BLS 2018b).

11.See http://www.wecglobal.org/economicreport2016/index.html (accessed 15 October 2018).

12.These countries were: Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

13.See https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/15/more-than-7m-britons-inprecarious-employment (accessed 27 May 2018).

14.Such work is also the preserve of groups already vulnerable in society, such as migrant workers, and links into the related debate on the “grey area” of the labour market (Thörnquist 2015).

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