Gig Economy Research: debating ethics and methods with platform workers

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Programme :

- Introduction: Editor of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation: Ursula Huws

- Making gender visible in platform research: Nelli Kambouri

- Some approaches to avoiding ethical harm in platform research: Funda Ustek Spilda

- Ethical challenges in action research with workers: a dialogue between Todd Wolfson, Yaseen Aslam and James Farrar

- Discussion

This webinar will open a conversation between experienced researchers into the ‘gig economy’ and platform workers who have been on the receiving end of such research. Recently there has a surge of interest in researching platform workers – who cannot be reached by the traditional methods used by labour sociologists. Researchers have used a variety of methods including participant observation, workers’ enquiries and other ethnographic and action research methods to investigate the working lives and struggles of workers. But is there a risk that some workers may be excluded or rendered invisible in these approaches? And might there be other harms to vulnerable workers? We expect this webinar to be of special relevance to PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers designing research on platform labour, but hope that it will also open up a broader debate on the ethical challenges of researching vulnerable workers’

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