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The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector

Author: Kurt Vandaele; Silvia Rainone
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035321131
Published In: March 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Multidisciplinary in scope, The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work comprehensively analyses the dynamics and trends of the app-based food delivery sector in the platform economy. Adopting a comparative approach, it examines the regulatory developments in the field at EU level and beyond.

Bringing together a diverse array of leading experts, this Companion goes beyond exploring pure labour issues, delving into the societal dynamics at play in the sector. The various actors in app-based food delivery are identified and key themes such as the mobilisation of food delivery couriers, their issues and grievances, and their working conditions are discussed. Regulatory reforms including the Platform Work Directive 2024 and the outcomes of courier mobilisation are explored in addition to alternatives to corporate platforms.

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work is a fundamental resource for academics and students of sociology and social policy, labour policy and economics and employment relations law. Practitioners, policymakers, trade unionists and labour advocates will also find the book’s practical implications to be of great benefit.

Regulating platform work: insights from the food delivery sector in Europe and beyond 1

Kurt Vandaele and Silvia Rainone

PART I. ACTORS 21

Shaping space and being shaped by it: analysing the socio-spatial dialectic of food delivery platforms 22

Heiner Heiland

Icarus in a coma: mapping food delivery platform companies in Europe 37

Kurt Vandaele

E pluribus union(s)? Assessing the diversity of organisation among food delivery couriers across Europe 59

Vincenzo Maccarrone, Lorenzo Cini, Jörg Nowak and Arianna Tassinari

The changing composition of app-based food delivery couriers and the consequences for collectivism 76

Cosmin Popan and Kristin Jesnes

PART II. MOBILISATION AND ISSUES 95

Patterns of labour unrest among app-based food delivery workers in Europe: the surprising persistence of industrial relations regimes 96

Mark Stuart, Vera Trappmann, Denis Neumann, Simon Joyce, Ioulia Bessa and Charles Umney

Assessing the quality of food delivery platform work: towards a conceptual framework for job quality in the platform economy 114

Agnieszka Piasna and Wouter Zwysen

The problem of unpaid labour in food delivery platforms in Europe: understanding the role of socio-technical and employment contract effects 133

Valeria Pulignano and Damian Grimshaw

PART III. OUTCOMES AND REGULATION 149

Platforms, wages and individual bargaining power: assessing labour market competition among Swedish couriers 150

Carl Fredrik Söderqvist

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Judicial creativity in the platform economy: normative insights for broadening the scope of labour law 169

Silvia Rainone and Christina Hiessl

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Regulating platform work in the European Union: initiatives, challenges and the ways ahead 188

Despoina Georgiou

PART IV. CLOSING THOUGHTS: BEYOND EUROPE AND FOOD DELIVERY 205

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Challenges in advocating recognition and protection among delivery platform workers across the Americas: cases from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the US 206

María Figueroa and María Eugenia Rodríguez

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Avenues for social empowerment: the cooperative model for app-based food delivery and beyond 232

Denise Kasparian

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The spillover effect of algorithmic management and how (not) to tame it 251

Nastazja Potocka-Sionek and Antonio Aloisi

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The limits of fissurisation in platform work: the case of food delivery services 270

Anke Hassel