Collective Labour Rights for Self-Employed Workers: A Human Rights-Based Approach of Platform Work
About this ebook
Fully describing the phenomenon of platform work as well as presenting a detailed global overview of responses related to the challenges stemming from platform work arrangements, the research, inter alia, covers aspects, such as the following:
problems, challenges, and questions related to platform work arrangements, and how those are linked to broader labour market trends;
platform work’s deeper foundational implications for labour law;
legal developments related to the regulation of platform work with an assessment of their limits when it comes to collective labour rights, also recognised as human rights;
various ways in which platform workers and other atypical workers have managed to exercise their collective labour rights; and
promising indications of closer cooperation between organised labour and workers in non-standard forms of employment.
The analysis draws on international human rights and labour rights treaties and conventions, domestic legislation and regulations, rulings from international and national courts, and interpretative and authoritative sources including the relevant legal literature.
The book manifests and responds to a genuine need for in-depth research with respect to the protection of the human rights of platform workers with an analytical framework that will ensure their adequate protection. Its crucial observations will be welcomed by practitioners in labour law, human rights law, and competition law, as well as by academics, human resources professionals, and labour and employment policymakers.
