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Labour Standards in the Platform Economy: Fairwork Ecuador Ratings 2022

Fairwork France Ratings 2022: Towards Better Working Conditions on Bicycle Delivery Platforms

Fairwork UK Ratings 2022: Collective Worker Power

Fairwork Colombia Ratings 2021: The Promise of Social Security Reforms in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Argentina Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Austria Ratings 2022: Towards Fairness in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Belgium Ratings 2022: Towards Decent Work in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Brazil Ratings 2021: Towards Decent Work in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Serbia Ratings 2021: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

New regulation of platform work in Chile: a missed opportunity?

Fairwork Germany Ratings 2021/22: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Fairwork Egypt Ratings 2021: Towards Decent Work in a Highly Informal Economy

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Academic Publications

Funda Ustek Spilda, Kelle Howson and Hannah Johnston et al. Is anonymity dead?. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation. Vol. 16(1):72-87. DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.16.1.0072
Graham, M., & Ferrari, F. (Eds.). (2022). Digital Work in the Planetary Market. MIT Press.
Fredman, S., du Toit, D., Graham, M., Cherupara Vadekkethil, A., Bhatia, G., & Bertolini, A. (2021). International Regulation of Platform Labor: A Proposal for Action. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 1(1), w1.1.4.
Bertolini, A., Howson, K., Katta, S., Ustek-Spilda, F, Graham, M. (2021). Gig Economy and Sustainable Development, in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Walter Leal Filho et al. (Eds): Decent Work and Economic Growth, , 457067_0_En, (Chapter 105-1)
Howson, K., Ferrari, F., Ustek-Spilda, F., Salem, N., Johnston, H., Katta, S., Heeks, R. & Graham, M. (2021). Driving the digital value network: Economic geographies of global platform capitalism. Global Networks.
Salvagni, J.; Colomby, R. K. ; Cheron, C. Em contexto de pandemia: entregadores de aplicativos, precarização do trabalho, esgotamento e mobilização. Revista Simbiótica, v. 8, p. 149-169, 2021.
Salvagni, J.; Silva, V. M. ; Grohmann, R. ; Abs, D. Por trabalho decente no cooperativismo de plataforma. Ciências do Trabalho, v. 20, p. 1, 2021.
Englert, S., Graham. M., Fredman, S., du Toit, D., Badger, A., Heeks, R., and Van Belle, J. P. (2021). Workers, Platforms and the State: The Struggle over Digital Labour Platform Regulation. In Drahokoupil, J., and Vandael, K. (2021). Labour and the Platform Economy. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. 162-176
Tsibolane, P., Albornoz, M., Arriagada, A., Putri, T., Van Belle, J., Chavez, H., Heeks, R., Howson, K., Bonhomme, M., Leyton, J., Ibáñez, F., Bezuidenhout, L. and Graham, M. 2021. Fairwork in the platform economy: A Global South perspective. In Albrieu, R. 2021. Cracking the future of work. Automation and labor platforms in the Global South.
Grohmann, R., Cláudia N., Ana Flávia M. and Camila C. 2021. As Estratégias de Comunicação das Plataformas de Trabalho: Circulação de Sentidos nas Mídias Sociais das Empresas no Brasil. Comunicação e Sociedade 39 (30 June 2021): 17–37.
Heeks, R., Graham, M., Mungai, P., Van Belle, J.P. and Woodcock, J. 2021. Systematic evaluation of gig work against decent work standards: The development and application of the Fairwork framework. DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2021.1942356.
Howson, K., Spilda, F.U., Bertolini, A., Heeks, R., Ferrari, F., Katta, S., Cole, M., Reneses, P.A., Salem, N., Sutcliffe, D., Steward, S. and Graham, M. 2021. Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Labour Review. Accepted Author Manuscript. DOI: 10.1111/ilr.12222.
Bertolini, A., Borkert, M., Ferrari, F. & Graham, M. 2021. Towards decent work in the digital age: introducing the fairwork project in Germany, Wissenschaftliche Beiträge.
Woodcock, J., & Graham, M. (2020). The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction. Polity Press.
Belén Albornoz, M. & Chávez, H. 2020. De la gestión algorítmica del trabajo a la huelga 4.0. Mundos Plurales, 7(2), 43-54.
Heeks, R., Gomez Morantes, J. E., Graham, M., Howson, K., Mungai, P., Nicholson, B., Van Belle J. 2021. Digital Platforms and Institutional Voids in Developing Countries, World Development.
Ferrari, F. & Graham, M. 2021. Fissures in Algorithmic Power: Platforms, Code, and Contestation, Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2021.1895250.
Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., Grohmann, R., Salem, N., Carelli, R., Abs, D., Salvagni, J., Graham, M., Balbornoz, M., Chavz, H., Arriagada, A., Bonhomme, M. 2020. Just because you don’t see your boss, doesn’t mean you don’t have a boss’: Covid- 19 and Gig Worker Strikes across Latin America, International Union Rights, 27(3), 20-21, 28.
Fredman, S., du Toit, D., Graham, M., Howson, K., Heeks, R., van Belle, J-P., Mungai, P., & Osiki, A. 2020 Thinking Out of the Box: Fair Work for Platform Workers, King’s Law Journal, DOI: 10.1080/09615768.2020.1794196
Katta, S., Badger, A., Graham, M., Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., & Bertolini, A. 2020. (Dis)embeddedness and (de)commodification: COVID-19, Uber, and the unravelling logics of the gig economy. Dialogues in Human Geography. DOI: 10.1177/2043820620934942
Graham, M., Woodcock, J., Heeks, R., Mungai, P., Van Belle, J.P., du Toit, D., Fredman, S., Osiki, A., van der Spuy, A. and Silberman, S.M., 2020. The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for improving platform work in a global context. Geoforum.
Katta, S., Howson, K., & Graham, M. (2020). The Fairwork Foundation: Action Research on the Gig Economy. Global Dialogue, 10(1), 44–46.
Graham, M, Woodcock, J., Heeks, R., Fredman, S., du Toit, D., van Belle, J-P., Mungai, P., Osiki, A. 2019. The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for Improving Platform Work. In Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019 “Challenges of Digital Inequality – Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life” (pp. 1-8). Berlin https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.13
Graham, M. and Woodcock, J. 2018. Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation. Alternate Routes. 29. 242-253.
Graham, M and Shaw, J. (eds). 2017. Towards a Fairer Gig Economy. London: Meatspace Press.

Opinion Pieces

Bertolini, A., Lopez, T., Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Feuerstein, P. and Budu J. What Does the War in Ukraine Mean for Platform Workers? (2022, May 10). International Review of Sociology Blog.
Putri, T. and and Heeks R. Indonesia’s gig economy falling short on decent work standards (2022, Feb 3). Global Dialogue.
Graham, M. and López, T. The Fairwork Pledge: Digital labour platforms, precarious work and interventions for a fairer gig economy (2021, Dec 13). OECD Forum Network.
Cant, C. The Gig Economy Needs to Change – And the Public Knows It (2021, Nov 29) Tribune Magazine.
Howson, K., Feuerstein, P., Ustek-Spilda, F., Bertolini, A., Johnston, H. and Graham, M. Online Labor Platforms: Power Sans Accountability? (2021, Nov 5). Global Dialogue
Aguera, P. and Feuerstein, P. The Power of Allyship: Why We Need Each Other to Make Platform Work Fair (2021, Oct 7). Reshaping Work.
Tsibolane, P. Exploiting gig workers will only make SA’s jobs crisis worse (2021, Sep 20). FIN24.
Bezuidenhout, L. Role of ethics in gig economy raises questions (2021, Sep 17). ILO
Tsibolane, P. Gig workers need their fair share. (2021, Jul 22). Business Live.
Bezuidenhout, L. Choose platforms that support their gig economy workers survive during a pandemic. (2021, Jul 9). Mail&Guardian.
Graham, M. & Howson, K. When WFH is the norm: The unfair conditions of the global online work economy (2021, Jun 15). University of Oxford.
Bonhomme, M. Trabajadores migrantes en la economía de plataformas: un nuevo tipo de trabajo sin derechos (2021, Jun 10). Observatorio de Desigualdades UDP (Spanish).
Arriagada, A., Bonhomme, M., Leyton, J. & Ibáñez, F. Trabajadores desprotegidos, mal pagados y sin posibilidad de negociar: abriendo la caja negra de las plataformas digitales en Chile (2021, Jun 6). CIPER Chile (Spanish).
Carelli, R. Os desafios para a regulação do trabalho em plataformas (2021, Apr 08). NexoJornal, Nexo Políticas Públicas (Brazilian Portuguese).
Grohmann, F. & Graham, M. É possível trabalho decente em plataformas digitais? (2021, Feb 18). NexoJornal, Nexo Políticas Públicas (Brazilian Portuguese)
Ustek-Spilda, F., Bertolini, A., Neerukonda, M., Taduri P., Graham M., Salem N. COVID-19, the gig economy and the hunger for surveillance (2020, Dec 8). Ada Lovelace Institute.
Steward, S. California’s new ‘gig worker’ law – why EU must say No (2020, Nov 12). EUObserver.
Ustek-Spilda, F., Heeks, R. and Graham, M. Who will protect the workers, if not the platforms? (2020, May 28). Social Europe.
Graham, M., Ustek-Spilda, F., Howson, K., Katta, S., Bertolini, A., Badger, A. & Ferrari, F. (2020, May 22). If platforms do not protect gig workers, who will?. Geography Directions.
Ustek-Spilda, F., Heeks, R., Graham, M., Bertolini, A., Katta, S., Fredman, S., Howson, K., Ferrari, F., Neerukonda, M., Taduri, P., Badger, A., and Salem, N. (2020, May 14). How is the platform economy responding to Covid-19? openDemocracy.
Graham, M., Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., Katta, S., Bertolini, A., Badger, A. & Ferrari, F. (2020, April 23). If platforms do not protect gig workers, who will?. New Internationalist.
Medappa, K. and Taduri, P. (2020, April 22) By crowdfunding benefits for embattled workers, app-based services are evading their own obligations. Scroll.in
Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Bertolini, A., Katta, S., Ferrari, F., Badger, A., Howson, K., Neerukonda, M. & Taduro, P. (2020, April 9). Covid-19 Policies leave gig workers out in the cold. Bot Populi.
Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Bertolini, A., Katta, S., Ferrari, F. &, Howson, K. (2020, March 27). From Social Distancing to Social Solidarity: Gig economy and the Covid-19. OECD Development Matters Blog.
Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Bertolini, A., Katta, S., Ferrari, F., Badger, A., Howson, K., Neerukonda, M. (2020, March 26). The Politics of Covid-19: Gig work in the coronavirus crisis. Red Pepper.
Howson, K. (2020, March 19). COVID-19 brings into sharp relief the risks faced by gig workers. Business Brief.
Howson, K. (2020, March 19). Gig workers are at the front line of pandemic. Mail & Guardian.
Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Katta, S., Howson, K., & Ferrari, F. (2020, March 18). The untenable luxury of self-isolation. New Internationalist.
Howson, K. (2020, March 1). Why you should start talking to your Uber driver. Daily Maverick.
Howson, K., Katta, S., Graham, M., & Ustek-Spilda, F. (2020, February 3). Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing. OpenDemocracy. Also translated into Portuguese by CartaCapital as O lobo cuida do galinheiro on Feb 17, 2020.
Howson, K., Graham, M. and Katta, S. (2019, Dec 11). Platform workers, the future of work and Britain’s election. LSE media blog.
Graham, M. (2019, November 1). How to build a fairer gig economy in 4 steps. World Economic Forum. (also translated into Portuguese in Carta Capital).
Graham, M., Englert, S., and Woodcock, J. (2019, May 1). Holding platforms accountable to digital workers’ rights. New Internationalist.
Graham, M., Ferrari, F., and Woodcock, J. (2019, April 15). Plattformökonomie braucht Mindeststandards. Der Tagesspiegel.
Gillwald, A., Graham, M., Englert, S., van der Spuy, A., and Woodcock, J. (2019, April 11). Fairwork exposes exploitation in gig economy amid regulatory vacuum. Business Day (South Africa).