THE GIG ECONOMY AND LABOUR REGULATION: an international and comparative approach

Abstract

This paper deals with the main labour implications of the so-called “gig-economy”. The gig-economy is usually understood to include chiefly two forms of work: “crowdwork” and “work on-demand via apps” (De Stefano, 2016a; Smith and Leberstein, 2015, Sundarajan, 2016).