Background and context: What is the sharing economy and how can it be governed? -- Platform work: implications for employment relations and the broader labour market -- Bibliography -- Preface -- Concluding remarks – how to bridge the knowledge gap? -- Introduction -- Summary.

Since July 2007 the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis originating in the U.S. housing market. The crisis has subsequently spread to the financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises...