The so-called “gig-economy” has been growing exponentially in numbers and importance in recent years but its impact on labour rights has been largely overlooked. Forms of work in the “gig-economy” include “crowd work”, and “work-on-demand via apps”, under which the demand and...

Marktnahe Beschäftigungsformen - z.B. die Arbeitnehmerüberlassung, die befristete Beschäftigung oder Formen der abhängigen Beschäftigung - haben national wie international an Bedeutung zugenommen. Innerhalb von Beschäftigungssystemen werden sie als flexible Alternativen im Vergleich zum...

Many civil society organizations and advocacy groups consider international human rights norms to offer a more promising avenue for protecting migrant workers from precarious employment than do claims based upon citizenship and the nation state. However, there is little research on how...