Introduction: The Platform Economy as a Multifaceted Reality Abounding in Poor Working Conditions Without Social Protection
1. Classifying Digital Platform Workers as Either Employees or Self-Employed
2. Collective Bargaining and Resistance by Platform Workers
3. Social Protection of Platform Workers
4. Monetization of the Personal Data of Platform Workers
5. National Legislative Initiatives for Protecting Platform Workers Around the World
6. The European Directive on Improving Working Conditions in Platform Work
Conclusion: Ten Proposals for the International Regulation of Platform Work
Biography
Luz Rodríguez is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Castilla–La Mancha (Spain). She has worked as a Labour Market Institutions Specialist for the International Labour Organization (Geneva), where she produced the global report “Decent Work in the Platform Economy”. As an author of more than 90 publications on employment and industrial relations, she is considered one of the leading experts on digital platform work. Rodríguez is currently spearheading research initiatives, including a European project focused on the utilization of platform workers’ personal data to bolster collective bargaining and a Next Generation-funded project centred on labour-and-business-related digital rights.
