Description
CROWD-WORK – FINDING NEW STRATEGIES TO ORGANISE LABOUR IN EUROPE
The objective of this project is to identify alternative self-organized actions to improve crowd workers’ working conditions, analyze their strategies and compare them with trade unions’ plans in and across countries. The Consortium includes partners from countries representing different models of industrial relations, namely the Mediterranean, Centre-west and Eastern model of industrial relations (i.e. Portugal, Spain, Germany and Hungary). 3 activities are foreseen:
1-Desk research and preliminary interviews. This includes literature review and the identification of alternative unions or movements to represent crowd-workers, at digital platforms, cyber-cafés, digital forums, blogs, shared workspaces, social gatherings for digital workers, etc
2-Field work – case studies on trade unions and alternative movements in crowd work. is dedicated to develop four country case studies on crowd work and related trade union and self-organized strategies (one per country).
3.Concluding analysis – cross-country comparison
In order to grasp a European perspective on crowd work and labour movements, a cross-European comparison on similarities and differences will be conducted. The comparison of country specific debates, developments and actors will show common and diverging strategies towards crowd work in Europe.
