Creativity, cooperation and conflict in the platform economy in Western Europe

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Kurt Vandaele, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)

Via a non-exhaustive mapping of various examples in Western European countries, this paper develops the argument that the rise of the platform economy is an opportunity for organizational creativity or experimentation for providing representation and voice to different categories of ‘platform workers’.

Session: 
T2-WS1: Workshop: Improving conditions of platform workers in Europe
Track: 
Track 2: Regulation of Labour: Actors, Institutions and Law
People: 
Kurt Vandaele