1st Edition
The Platform Economy and Labour Law The Concept of the Worker
Introduction
1. The Concept of the ‘Worker’ in EU Labour and Social Law
2. Combating Employment Status Misclassification in the Platform Economy
3. The Concept of ‘Worker’ in Eu Competition Law
4. The Problem with the ‘Subordination’ Paradigm and Alternative Paradigms that have been Proposed in the Literature
5. The ‘Integration’ Paradigm – Methodology
6. Clarifying the Eu Competition Law Agency Acquis
7. The ‘Integrated Worker’ in the EU Competition Law Field
8. Identifying ‘Integration’ for the Purposes of the EU Free Movement, Labour and Social Law Fields
Conclusion
Biography
Despoina Georgiou is a legal scholar specialising in EU Labour and Competition Law. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge, an LL.M. from UCL, and an LL.B. from DUTH. A former Lecturer at Cambridge, she has also conducted research at Harvard Law School and advised the European Parliament and the Greek Government on EU labour policy. Her award-winning work has appeared in leading law journals, and she has collaborated with renowned academics across Europe on projects exploring the future of work and EU regulation. Dr Georgiou also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Law Review.
