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      Digital economy and the law: introduction to this Special Issue

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            This article introduces the special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation on the digital economy and the law. After summarising the literature and setting out some of the key issues raised by digitalisation in general and online platforms in particular for labour rights, it introduces the contents of the issue in detail, positioning them in relation to these larger debates.

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            Journal
            10.13169
            workorgalaboglob
            Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
            Pluto Journals
            1745641X
            17456428
            Winter 2018
            : 12
            : 2
            : 7-11
            Article
            workorgalaboglob.12.2.0007
            10.13169/workorgalaboglob.12.2.0007
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            © Bernd Waas, Vera Pavlou and Elena Gramano, 2018

            All content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission of the publisher or the author. Articles published in the journal are distributed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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            Sociology,Labor law,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics
            crowdwork,digitalisation,platforms,crowdworkers',collective representation,gig economy

            References

            1. (2016) ‘Beyond misclassification: The digital transformation of work’, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal , 37 (3):577–602.

            2. (2017) ‘The status of Uber drivers: A purposive approach’, Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal , 1–2 (6):6–15.

            3. (2016) ‘The rise of the just-in-time-workforce’, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal , 37 (3):471–503.

            4. (2018) ‘Negotiating the algorithm’, ILO Employment Working Paper No. 246, International Labour Organization, Geneva.

            5. (2017) ‘Debating the gig economy, crowdwork and new forms of work’, Soziales Recht , 6:221–38.

            6. (2018) Humans as Service , Oxford: Oxford University Press.

            7. & (2016) ‘Uber, Taskrabbit, & co: Platforms as employers? Rethinking the legal analysis of crowdwork’, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal , 37 (3):619–51.

            8. (2017) ‘Online platforms and crowdwork in Europe: A two-step approach to expanding agency work provisions’, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal , 38 (3):477–511.

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