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100 _aBarratt, Tom
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245 _aI’m my own boss…:
_bActive intermediation and entrepreneurial worker agency in the Australian gig economy/
260 _bSage,
_c2020.
300 _aVol. 52, Issue 8, 2020 ( 1643–1661 p.)
520 _aPlatform firm in the gig-economy are disrupting work as a social practice, production systems and recasting capital-labour relations. This qualitative study examines worker agency in the Australian food-delivery sector; a segment where platforms actively intermediate both product and labour markets. Within this sector, worker agency poses a potential challenge to platform-organisations; however this study reveals how these platforms’ work organisation and market regulation constrain agency potential. Shaped by the work’s spatio-temporal features, organisational fixes and institutional context, it is shown how food-delivery workers, transiently attached to the labour market, predominantly engage in ‘entrepreneurial agency’ – a low-level agency expression aimed at materially improving individual conditions and aligning with, rather than challenging, platforms’ business models.
700 _aGoods, Caleb
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700 _aVeen, Alex
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_dLondon Pion Ltd. 2010
_tEnvironment and planning A
_x1472-3409
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X20914346
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