The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: insights from the Food Delivery Sector

Book

Edited by: Vandaele, Kurt ; Rainone, Silvia

Publisher: Edward Elgar - Cheltenham

Publication date: 2025

Pages: 299 p.

Keywords: crowd work ; labour relations ; future of work ; quality of working life ; migrant worker ; urban area ; food ; delivery

Subject: Employment

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035321148

Language: English

Illustrations: Bibliogr.

ISBN/ISSN: 9781035321131

Shelfmark: 13.01.3-68898

"Multidisciplinary in scope, The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work comprehensively analyses the dynamics and trends of the app-based food delivery sector in the platform economy. Adopting a comparative approach, it examines the regulatory developments in the field at EU level and beyond."

Support: Paper

Contains

[Book chapter] Regulating platform work: insights from the food delivery sector in Europe and beyond / 1 ; 1. Edward Elgar, 2025. - 1-20
[Book chapter] Icarus in a coma: mapping food delivery platform companies in Europe / 1. Edward Elgar, 2025. - 37-58
[Book chapter] Assessing the quality of food delivery platform work: towards a conceptual framework for job quality in the platform economy / 1 ; 1. Edward Elgar, 2025. - 114-132
[Book chapter] Judicial creativity in the platform economy: normative insights for broadening the scope of labour law / 1 ; 1. Edward Elgar, 2025. - 171-189

Contents

1: Regulating platform work: insights from the food delivery sector in Europe and beyond
Kurt Vandaele and Silvia Rainone
Part I: Actors
2: Shaping space and being shaped by it: analysing the socio-spatial dialectic of food delivery platforms
Heiner Heiland
3: Icarus in a coma: mapping food delivery platform companies in Europe
Kurt Vandaele
4: E pluribus union(s)? Assessing the diversity of organisation among food delivery couriers across Europe
Vincenzo Maccarrone, Lorenzo Cini, Jörg Nowak and Arianna Tassinari
5: The changing composition of app-based food delivery couriers and the consequences for collectivism
Cosmin Popan and Kristin Jesnes
Part II: Mobilisation and issues
6: Patterns of labour unrest among app-based food delivery workers in Europe: the surprising persistence of industrial relations regimes
Mark Stuart, Vera Trappmann, Denis Neumann, Simon Joyce, Ioulia Bessa and Charles Umney
7: Assessing the quality of food delivery platform work: towards a conceptual framework for job quality in the platform economy
Agnieszka Piasna and Wouter Zwysen
8: The problem of unpaid labour in food delivery platforms in Europe: understanding the role of socio-technical and employment contract effects
Valeria Pulignano and Damian Grimshaw
Part III: Outcomes and regulation
9: Platforms, wages and individual bargaining power: assessing labour market competition among Swedish couriers
Carl Fredrik Söderqvist
10: Judicial creativity in the platform economy: normative insights for broadening the scope of labour law
Silvia Rainone and Christina Hiessl
11: Regulating platform work in the European Union: initiatives, challenges and the ways ahead
Despoina Georgiou
Part IV: Beyond Europe and food delivery
12: Challenges in advocating recognition and protection among delivery platform workers across the Americas: cases from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the US
María Figueroa and María Eugenia Rodríguez
13: Avenues for social empowerment: the cooperative model for app-based food delivery and beyond
Denise Kasparian
14: The spillover effect of algorithmic management and how (not) to tame it
Nastazja Potocka-Sionek and Antonio Aloisi
15: The limits of fissurisation in platform work: the case of food delivery services
Anke Hassel

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