Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180101191

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Working the gig economy: The organisation of digital platform work. This project aims to reveal the characteristics, motivations and relationships between the three central entities which comprise digital platform work: companies which organise work of different skill and scale in the gig economy; end-user individuals and enterprises; and digital platform workers themselves. This project investigates the organisation of platform work from the perspective of both workers and the intermediaries they use to find work. Expected outcomes will contribute g to knowledge of workforce transitions and shifting work/home boundaries This has the potential to informeffective policy responses to platform work with respect to labour law, superannuation regulation, organisational policy and social welfare regimes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2018

End Date: 12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $250,219.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Labour Law | Industrial Relations | Business and Management | Social and Cultural Geography

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial Relations | Management | Law Reform |