Platform cooperatives and employment. An alternative for platform work
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris
OECD Publishing - Paris
2023
60 p.
social economy ; nonprofit organization ; local economic development ; cooperative ; digitalisation ; employment ; crowd work
OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Working Papers
2023/16
Cooperatives
https://doi.org/10.1787/3eab339f-en
English
Bibliogr.
"Platform cooperatives refer to cooperatives that are directly owned and managed by their members and that use websites and/or mobile apps to sell goods and/or services. They have emerged in large part as alternatives to digital labour platforms to promote better working conditions with evidence of significant growth in recent years.
This paper provides an overview of employment in platform cooperatives and offers insights on their distinctive features. In particular, it provides i) insights on working conditions associated with such platforms; ii) an overview on the challenges they face in creating jobs as well as scaling up, developing and expanding their activity; and iii) policy recommendations and examples of policy actions that could help policy makers best support them to generate work opportunities and enhance job quality.
This paper was produced as part of the OECD Global Action on Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems, funded by the European Union's Foreign Partnership Instrument."
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