Denis Neumann

University of Leeds · Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC)

Since 2017, platform workers in Germany have made remarkable efforts to improve their working conditions. Based on Data from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest the second country report sheds a light on the case of Germany.

With a novel methodology searching news events from world’s largest news agencies via the online GDELT project, this report documents protest of key workers against their working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in 90 countries.

The report offers the first global dataset of labour protests of key workers during the pandemic. It focusses on two sectors, healthcare and retail. The results show that, overall, despite large volumes of protest over acute COVID-related problems such as the provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the main concern of protesting workers d...

This paper presents findings from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest, a database of platform worker protest events around the world which gathers data from online news media reports and other online sources. For the period January 2017 to July 2020, we identified 1,271 instances of worker protest in four platform sectors: ride-hailing, food...

The existing literature lacks an exploration of this interplay between new and ‘old’ collective actors in the struggle to ensure that the interests of workers in the platform economy are effectively represented. This chapter fills this gap by examining and contributing to a better understanding of the couriers’ road to mobilization, as well as of t...

Labour unrest by platform workers is an important phenomenon in the new world of work. This study examines patterns of platform labour unrest on a global scale, drawing from a database of over 500 instances of labour unrest in the food delivery sector. Results show that labour unrest has been growing in recent years and has spread across a large nu...

The newly developed Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest provides an overview of the developments in platform worker organisation and mobilisation on a global scale. Its findings so far reveal that: − The main cause globally for labour protest is pay, with considerable geographical variation when it comes to other causes for dispute. − Types of...

The newly developed Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest provides an overview of the developments in platform worker organisation and mobilisation on a global scale. Its findings so far reveal that: The main cause globally for labour protest is pay, with considerable geographical variation when it comes to other causes for dispute. Types of plat...

Publikacja stanowi podsumowanie kluczowych wyników projektu naukowego PREWORK – "Młodzi pracownicy prekaryjni w Polsce i Niemczech: socjologiczne studium porównawcze warunków pracy i życia, świadomości społecznej i aktywności obywatelskiej" prowadzonego w latach 2016-2020. Poszczególne rozdziały dotyczą m.in. definicji prekaryjnego zatrudnienia, sy...

The publication is a summary of the key results of the PREWORK scientific project - "Young precarious workers in Poland and Germany: a comparative sociological study on working and living conditions, social consciousness and civic engagement " carried out in 2016-2020. Chapters concern, among others, the definition of precarious employment, the sit...