Come Together Now! New Technologies and Collective Representation of Platform Workers

• Authors: Joanna Unterschütz

Title variants

PL

Chodźcie z nami! Nowe technologie i reprezentacja zbiorowa pracowników cyfrowych platform zatrudnienia

Abstracts

PL

Celem niniejszego krótkiego opracowania jest zarysowanie problemów, z jakimi boryka się zbiorowe prawo pracy w obliczu nowych form organizacji pracy, takich jak platformy cyfrowe. Gospodarka cyfrowa przyniosła automatyzację pracy, cyfryzację procesów i koordynację przez platformy. W porównaniu z innymi przedsiębiorstwami istnieją znaczące różnice w sposobie organizacji i zarządzania platformami za pomocą algorytmów. Pracownicy platform zatrudnienia przeszli długą drogę od początkowej formy organizowania się we wspólnotach samopomocowych, cechach do spółdzielni i pełnego uczestnictwa w strukturach związków zawodowych. Obecnie należy się zastanowić, jak wykorzystać technologie i dane gromadzone przez firmy platformowe z korzyścią dla pracowników.

EN

The purpose of this short discussion paper is to outline the problems faced by collective labour law in face of new forms of work organization such as digital platforms. The digital economy has brought automation of work, digitalisation of processes and coordination by platforms. In comparison to other companies there are significant differences in the way platforms are organized and managed using algorithms. Employment platform workers have gone a long way from initial form of organising in self-help communities, guilds to co-operatives and full participation in trade union structures. Nowadays it has to be considered how to use technologies and data collected by platform companies to the benefit of workers.

Keywords

PL

cyfrowe platformy zatrudnienia; związki zawodowe; reprezentacja zbiorowa; zarządzanie algorytmiczne

EN

employment platforms; trade unions; collective representation; algorithmic management

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 95
• Pages: 61-69

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Joanna Unterschütz

• University of Business and Administration of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski in Gdynia

• https://orcid.org/0000000274168717

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/0208-6069.95.06

Biblioteka Nauki

1396337