Much litigation and scholarly commentary has focused on whether Uber drivers and other platform workers are employees of the platform or independent contracts. This Article contends that in the long run, this debate will be irrelevant to the question of how to protect workers in the platform...

"Introduction Deepa das Acevedo This book, although it may appear to be a single book, is in fact two. On the one hand, this is a book about labor exchange in the gig economy masquerading as a book about the value of qualitative empirical data for law and policy development. On the other hand,...

In Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, Deepa Das Acevedo and a collection of scholars and experts show why government actors must go beyond mass surveys and data-scrubbing in order to truly understand the realities of gig work. The contributors draw on qualitative...

This Essay explores new and proposed collective bargaining legislation for non-employee workers, including drivers and other gig economy workers. Labor law protects the rights of employees to unionize, but non-employee workers, such as independent contractors, are on shakier footing when they...

Context and history -- A global perspective -- Overview of workers' essential need and forms of legal protection -- Substantive rights to minimum pay and safety standards -- Procedural rights : freedom of association and job security standards -- Exclusion from jurisdiction as a regulatory...