Platform, Sharing or Gig? Ambiguities and Ambivalences of the Digitalization of the Economy

Abstract

The rapid growth of the debate around the crucial transformations that our economy is having through the development and public diffusion of digital technologies seems to have a consequence: the confusing multiplications of words and concepts regarding labour and the following difficulty in formulating univocal definitions. Thus, such ambiguity often impedes to focus the real extent that the impact of digital technologies is having on our society. While in its initial stage their potential in reshaping the organization of services provision has attracted optimist comments from scholars and commentators, especially after workers started to organize and struggle, a flourishing critical literature has later emerged.

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