A Price Too High: Injury and Assault among Delivery Gig Workers in New York City.
The occupational health burden and mechanisms that link gig work to health are understudied. We described injury and assault prevalence among food delivery gig workers in New York City (NYC) and assessed the effect of job dependence on injury and assault through work-related mechanisms and across tr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Urban Health Vol. 101; no. 3; pp. 439 - 451 |
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