Alberto Riesco

Principal Investigator

Alberto Riesco is a Co-Principal Investigator (alongside Kiko Tovar) for Fairwork Spain. Alberto coordinates the research in Spain, adjusting Fairwork principles and fieldwork resources for interviewing workers and platform management, assessing platforms’ scores and disseminating the final results. 

He is an associate professor in the sociology of work at the Department of Applied Sociology (Complutense University of Madrid-UCM) and affiliated researcher at the TRANSOC Institute (UCM). He has been a visiting researcher at the Université Paris Nanterre (France), University of California-Davis (USA) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Alberto Riesco is editor-in-chief of the Spanish journal Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales  and member of the editorial board of Política y Sociedad and Revue Française de Socio-Economie. He has also previously been a coordinator of the master degree programme in Advanced Studies in Labour and Employment (UCM) and Head of the expert group of the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Economy in charge of drafting the “National Strategy for the Promotion of Self-Employment 2021-2027”.

His recent books include:

• Desplazamiento de trabajadores en la Unión Europea (2018),
• Fronteras del trabajo asalariado (2020),
• Detrás de tu app. Descubriendo las condiciones laborales de las plataformas digitales en España (2024), and
• Workers without Companies, Companies without Workers (Routledge, in press).

You can find the full list of his publications here.

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