Digital Intermediaries in Domestic and Care Work

Lorena Poblete is Researcher at CONICET and Professor at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina.Eva Kocher is Professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

• Introduction, Lorena Poblete (CONICET Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina) and Eva Kocher (European University Viadrina, Germany)Part I: Emerging Models at National Level1. The Emergence of Platforms in Care and Domestic Services in Spain: An Exploration of their Business and Growth Models, Paula Rodríguez-Modroño (Pablo de Olavide University, Spain)2. Between Formal and Informal Work? Analysing Insertion Strategies of Digital Platforms in the French Domestic Services Market, Nicole Teke-Laurent (Nanterre University, France)3. Peer-to-Peer Precarity: The Role of Multi-Service Platforms in Shaping Wages and Working Conditions in Belgium, Mat Johnson (Alliance Manchester Business School, UK), Valeria Pulignano, Claudia Marà and Milena Franke ((KU Leuven, Belgium)Part II: Adaptations to Legal Frameworks from a Comparative Perspective4. Business as Usual? Strategic Adaptation and Effects on Labour Formalisation in Domestic Work Platforms in Southeast Europe, Jelena Starcevic (Cornell University, USA)5. Within and Without the Margins of the Law. Digital Intermediaries in Domestic Work in Latin America, Lorena Poblete (CONICET Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina)6. Care Regimes and Industrial Relations: A Comparison of the Factors Shaping the Emergence of Digital Platforms in the Domestic Sector in Ireland and Italy, Ivana Pais (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy), Caroline Murphy and Tish Gibbons ((University of Limerick, Ireland)Part III: An Alternative Model: Workers’ Cooperatives7. Towards Transition from an Academic Project to WeCare Workers Enterprise: Lessons from the Digital Platform Cooperative Project (DPCP), South Africa, Abigail Osiki (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)8. Giving Cleaning Work the Value it Deserves: The Potential of Platform Cooperatives to Advance Fair Work and Self-Determination, Joanna Bronowicka (European University Viadrina, Germany), Barbara Orth (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Sabri Schumacher (Autonomía, Switzerland)Part IV: Regulating Digital Intermediaries in Europe9. Domestic Platform Work as a Multiparty Relationship: Regulatory Loopholes and Ways to Address Them, Christina Hießl (KU Leuven, Belgium)10. Legal Models of Labour Intermediaries and Digital Care Platforms, Luca Ratti (University of Luxembourg)11. House of Gigs: Domestic Workers, Algorithmic Management and the Platform Work Directive, Antonio Aloisi (IE University Law School, Spain) and Nastazja Potocka-Sionek (University of Luxembourg)12. Platform Domestic and Childcare Work: Centring Labour Rights in the Formalisation Debate, Natalie Sedacca (University of Durham, UK) and Joe Atkinson (University of Southampton, UK)

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