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Workers, platforms and the state: the struggle over digital labour platform regulation
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021)This chapter discusses the arguments made by digital labour platforms - and their supporters - in favour of self-regulation. Against their claims that platform self-regulation is a preferable alternative to state intervention, ... -
Domestic work and platformisation in India and South Africa: A look at enablers and barriers
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Globally, the domestic work sector is both highly informal and highly feminised. This article will compile learnings from the domestic work sector in two countries of the Global South — India and South Africa — concerning ... -
Genuine autonomous work: toward a tailor-made social protection
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)This chapter aims at providing a conceptual framework to social protection of genuine autonomous work, with a reference to solopreneurs, analyzing socioeconomic risks and needs they are facing and that may differ from the ... -
South African labour law
(Juta, 2022)Staying abreast of legislative changes is now of crucial importance to employers, trade unionists, government officials and practitioners who have to deal with the completely revolutionized face of labour law in South ... -
Verso un mercato del lavoro di cura: questioni giuridiche e nodi istituzionali
(ADAPT University Press, 2022)Personal care has traditionally been a responsibility placed, in our country, on the family dimension, penalizing women who have always supported the burden of this work inside and outside the home. An undervalued, ... -
Nigeria’s political, economic, and social dynamics in a pandemic era
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)This chapter examines the impact of Nigeria’s containment and mitigation strategies established at the outbreak of the pandemic in the country. The chapter asserts that government intervention reflected a holistic approach ...
