‘Digital Tournaments’: The Colonization of Freelancers’ ‘Free’ Time and Unpaid Labour in the Online Platform Economy. KU Leuven
This article challenges positive views of the assumed relationships between skills, productivity and rewards in self-employed digital freelancing. It suggests that the upfront investments made by freelancers to build up positive platform ratings are not necessarily recouped in the form of increased autonomy, guaranteed work or more lucrative ‘gigs’. Drawing on 38 autobiographical narrative interviews and 12 audio working-diaries with diverse ...