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‘Woeful Pay, But Still, I Enjoy It’: Refining Subjective Job Quality in Ride‐Share Work Open
Workers who experience structural barriers in the labour market are overrepresented in the gig economy. There is limited research on how the broader context of labour markets and welfare systems shapes workers' motivations for, and subject…
(Institutionally) working Australia's gig economy into employment: Analysing Menulog's modern award application Open
This paper examines the modern award application made in April 2021 by Menulog Pty Ltd., an app-based food-delivery platform, and charters the subsequent process which was handled by the Fair Work Commission, Australia's main industrial re…
Overcoming legitimacy challenges of novel HRM practices during internationalization: The case of two food-delivery platforms Open
Food-delivery platforms seemingly confound the organizational logic that firms, upon internationalization, must gain legitimacy. We contribute to the literature on HRM in multinational enterprises by studying how Deliveroo and Uber Eats ex…
Accidental flexicurity or workfare? Navigating ride-share work and Australia’s welfare system Open
This mixed-methods study explores the intersection of the ‘gig’ economy and welfare state in Australia, exploring how ride-share work has provided a pathway into paid work for three traditionally disadvantaged groups: individuals with disa…
Power resources for disempowered workers? Re‐conceptualizing the power and potential of consumers in app‐based food delivery Open
Consumers play an integral role in the labor process of app‐based food delivery services through their consumption behaviors and performance ratings of workers. Some therefore see them as a potential ally of workers, whereas others view th…
Warring Brothers: Constructing Komatsu’s and Caterpillar’s Globalization Open
We detail how the world’s two largest engineering machinery firms, Japan’s Komatsu and the us’s Caterpillar, actively managed geographical concerns to become global actors. We argue that their globalization was not a teleological given but…
‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy Open
Platform firm in the gig-economy are disrupting work as a social practice, production systems and recasting capital-labour relations. This qualitative study examines worker agency in the Australian food-delivery sector; a segment where pla…
Labour in global production networks: Workers and unions in mining engineering work Open
Understanding the role of labour, underplayed in global production networks (GPN) theory, has guided this research on the mining engineering services sector. During the project, the global mining industry entered a downturn. Asking how min…