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Isis Hjorth
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 19
Citations - 1727
Isis Hjorth is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Offshoring & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1051 citations.
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Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy:
TL;DR: It is shown that algorithmic control is central to the operation of online labour platforms and can result in low pay, social isolation, working unsocial and irregular hours, overwork, sleep deprivation and exhaustion.
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Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods.
TL;DR: Drawing on a multi-year study with digital workers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-east Asia, this article highlights four key concerns for workers: bargaining power, economic inclusion, intermediated value chains, and upgrading.
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Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the disembeddedness of digital labour within the remote gig economy and use interview and survey data to highlight how platform workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa in the US can be categorized.
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The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders:
TL;DR: In this article, a transaction cost economics (TCE) based model was proposed to analyze 6 months of transaction records from a leading online platform to understand the cross-border information asymmetries that prevented micro-providers from participating in offshoring markets.
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The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders
TL;DR: This work theorizes global platforms through transaction cost economics (TCE), arguing that they are a new technology-enabled offshoring institution that emerges in response to cross-border information asymmetries that hitherto prevented microproviders from participating in offshored markets.