Serf-ing the Net: Contrasting Uber Workers in the United Kingdom With Uber Neo-Villeins in Ontario
Harvey, Geraint ; Prakasam, Naveena ; Shakirzhanov, Refat
2025
Early View
1-10
digital economy ; crowd work ; employment status ; labour law ; regulation ; driver
Law
https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12471
English
Bibliogr.
"We illustrate the exploitation in the relationship between Uber and its drivers by aligning their work with the characteristics of neo-villeiny. Two different legal developments in response to irregulation (or the lack of effective regulation) in similar institutional contexts emerge. While Uber drivers in the United Kingdom now have worker status, dysregulation (by which we mean regulation that exacerbates the problem it seeks to resolve) in Ontario has established neo-villeiny in law."
Digital
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