Implications of Labor and the Gig Economy

Name of paper reviewed
RMIT University Slide 1
• Adams, A.; Freedland M.; Prassl, J. 2015. The “Zero-Hours Contract: Regulating Casual Work or
Legitimising Precarity? ELLN, Working Paper No 5 (March)
• De Stefano, V., 2015. The rise of the'just-in-time workforce': On-demand work, crowd work and
labour protection in the'gig-economy
• Sundararajan, A., 2015. The ‘gig economy’is coming: What will it mean for work. The Guardian, 26,
p.2015.
• Scheiber, N., 2015. Growth in the ‘Gig Economy’Fuels Work Force Anxieties. The New York Times.

Primary purpose and focus of the article
• The main focus of the reading is the implications of labor and the gig
economy, it is a new term which is attracting the attention in the field of news
and also in magazines these days. The journal articles are also dealing with
this problem. The term gig economy means to understand the two forms of
work which incorporates the work via the process of apps and crowdwork
RMIT University Slide 2