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Coping with precarity during COVID-19: A study of platform work in Poland KU Leuven
This article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the work and life experiences of platform workers' and how workers have responded to the outbreak in Poland. Platform workers have been exposed to substantial fluctuations of demand during the pandemic, magnifying the distortions existing in an unregulated asymmetrical employment relationship diverging from the standard employment relationship. Findings illustrate how workers have ...
Working Hard For the Ones You Love and Care For Under COVID-19 Physical Distancing KU Leuven
In 2020, Covid-19 was spreading quickly in nursing homes, leading to numerous challenges for care workers. We tell the story of Marieke, a devoted female care assistant working in a Belgian nursing home that is customer-centred in their organisational model. Her narrative provides poignant insights into the ‘work and life’ struggles and conflicts of a female care assistant facing the challenges of a model during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has ...
Neither Precarious Nor Entrepreneur: The Subjective Experience of Hybrid Self-employed Workers KU Leuven
This paper focuses on the ‘hybridity’ of solo self-employment by shedding light on the lived experiences and meanings of the subjects within their institutional and socio-economic contexts. It offers an original perspective to the study of the hybridisation of work by linking between subjective and objective conditions underpinning solo self-employed workers. We found that solo-self employed workers exercise agency over their working lives when ...
E-Democrazia al Lavoro: Effetti e Problematicità dell’Era Digitale KU Leuven
This contribution highlights the problems arising from the effects of digital technology on democracy. There are three main issues that are addressed. The first is related to the control of advanced technological systems in the hands of an elite that risks increasing its power and influence on the masses of users and consumers who use new technologies. The second theme, directly connected to the first, concerns public trust in democratic ...