Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/287405 
Title (translated): 
Auf dem Weg zu menschenwürdiger Arbeit im digitalen Zeitalter: Das Fairwork-Projekt in Deutschland
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft [ISSN:] 2366-4681 [Volume:] 75 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 187-192
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
The Fairwork Project is an international action-research project that currently operates in over 20 countries. The project focuses on working conditions in the platform economy, in order to develop 'fairness ratings' for digital labour platforms. With respect to Germany, the project evaluated the working conditions offered by ten digital labour platforms, by scoring them against the Fairwork principles and producing a national league table. We found that even in a highly regulated labour market context like the German one, platform workers experience precarity and insecurity and have limited access to employment rights. A number of platform workers are classified as employees rather than self-employed, and this guarantees a number of employment rights, including entitlement to minimum wage, health and safety protection and social protection. However, the existence of an employment relationship does not necessarily ensure platform work to be fair as other factors, including the existence of complex networks of subcontracting, erode labour standards and deprive workers of basic employment rights. Practical Relevance: While there are tens of millions of digital platform workers around the world performing functions essential to society—as demonstrated drastically by the Covid-19 pandemic—by supplying food, care and passenger transportation services, many platform workers face low pay, precarity as well as poor and dangerous working conditions. Exposing fracture lines of inequalities affecting particularly women, migrants and minority-ethnic groups who form the core part of the gig workforce, the international Fairwork research project aims not just to understand the gig economy, but to change it.
Subjects: 
Decent work
Platform economy
Digital business models
Fairness ranking
Covid-19
Menschenwürdige Arbeit
Plattformökonomie
Digitale Geschäftsmodelle
Fairness-Ranking
Covid-19
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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