A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work.
The purpose of this paper is to explore workplace harassment in the context of platform work. To seek a causal explanation for harassment experienced by platform workers, we conducted a secondary analysis of already-published empirical studies and engaged labour process theory, a theory that is phil...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 149 - 176 |
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