
Julia TomassettiCity University of Hong Kong | CityU · School of Law
Julia Tomassetti
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This is a call for papers for the Special issue on "Global Media and China", the theme is "the internet-outernet Interface".
Digital platform labor and its complex relationship with capital have stirred scholarly inquiry, calling for a systemic review that bridges foundational theories and various currents of development. In this review, we revisit Marxist and autonomist Marxist theses on the changing nature of work in the platform economy. Following that, we review two...
This chapter examines how neoliberal conceptions of the individual as an economic agent enter legal evaluations of the employment status of platform workers. I focus on SuperShuttle DFW, a recent decision denying labour rights to airport shuttle drivers. My analysis shows how platform companies, through the design of work practices and discursive t...
In Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, Deepa Das Acevedo and a collection of scholars and experts show why government actors must go beyond mass surveys and data-scrubbing in order to truly understand the realities of gig work. The contributors draw on qualitative empirical research to reveal the narratives and real-...
In opinions addressing whether graduate students, medical residents, and disabled workers in nonstandard work arrangements are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, I analyze partisan differences in how National Labor Relations Board members, under the previous two US presidents, confronted the contradictory permeation of wage-labor int...