Digitalisation

The scenario-building project ‘Worker Participation 2030’ provides different alternative long-term views on changing contexts under which worker participation and its actors might have to operate in the future. The aim of the ETUI’s scenario work is not to predict the future but to reflect about and prepare for different ‘possible futures’.

Jan Drahokoupil

The challenge of digital transformation in the automotive industry

This book addresses the impact of new technologies, typically discussed under the heading of Industry 4.0. It focuses in particular on the... Find out more

Michael ‘Six’ Silberman, Hannah Johnston

Using GDPR to improve legal clarity and working conditions on digital labour platforms

This paper examines how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be used to address procedural problems faced by platform workers... Find out more

Agnieszka Piasna, Jan Drahokoupil

Digital labour in central and eastern Europe

This working paper presents the results of the ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey conducted in Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and... Find out more

Kurt Vandaele, Agnieszka Piasna, Jan Drahokoupil

Unwilful ignorance: attitudes to trade unions among Deliveroo riders in Belgium

This policy brief shows that only a small minority of Deliveroo riders in Belgium, who are predominantly male, young and students, hold... Find out more

Jan Drahokoupil, Agnieszka Piasna

Work in the platform economy: Deliveroo riders in Belgium and the SMart arrangement

This paper presents a case study of the food delivery platform, Deliveroo, in Belgium in 2016-2018. The case offers insights on the nature... Find out more

January 11, 2021

Gig workers’ rights and their strategic litigation

A window of opportunity has opened up to utilise EU law on health and safety to advance the rights of ‘gig’ workers in domestic courts. The... Find out more

December 08, 2020

Gig-life balance?

The way working time is organised has changed profoundly in recent years. Structural changes in the economy, loosening of labour standards... Find out more