2018/07/01 by Ursula Huws, Neil H. Spencer, Dag S. Syrdal +1 · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Digital Economy and Work Transformation #Sharing Economy and Platforms #Taxation and Compliance Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/ntwe.12111
openalex publication_date 2018/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This article questions whether the dominant policy discourse, in which a normative model of standard employment is counterposed to ‘non‐standard’ or ‘atypical’ employment, enables us to capture the diversity of fluid labour markets in which work is dynamically reshaped in an interaction between different kinds of employment status and work organisation. Drawing on surveys in the UK , Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands that investigate work managed via online platforms (‘crowdwork’) and associated practices, it demonstrates that crowdwork represents part of a continuum. Not only do most crowd workers combine work for online platforms with other forms of work or income generation, but also many of the ICT ‐related practices associated with crowdwork are widespread across the rest of the labour market where a growing number of workers are ‘logged’. Future research should not just focus on crowdworkers as a special case but on new patterns of work organisation in the regular workforce.