William Attwood-Charles

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on three areas of research in the for-profit segment, also called the platform economy: social connection, conditions for laborers, and inequalities, and find that some parts of the platform market do foster social connection and that even shared hospitality is becoming more like conventional exchange.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study four sites from the sharing economy to analyze how class and other forms of inequality operate within this type of economic arrangement and find considerable evidence of distinguishing practices and the deployment of cultural capital, as understood by Bourdieusian theory.

TL;DR: It is found that the extent to which workers are dependent on platform income to pay basic expenses rather than working for supplemental income explains the variation in outcomes, which suggests platforms are free-riding on conventional employers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted 120 in-depth interviews with providers in two for-profit and three not-for-profit sites and found that most see the sharing economy differently, as an opportunity to build a radically different market, from the bottom up.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that an archetypal transaction platform is comprised of three canonical social relationships which exist in tension with each other: mutuality, autonomy, and domination.