The article takes the surprising exit of the food delivery platform Deliveroo from Berlin as a
starting point to analyse the relationship between migration and the gig economy. In Berlin …

This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and
“Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and …

In recent years, the term precarity has proliferated in the social sciences at the risk of losing
its analytical purchase. This review considers the value and limitations of precarity in the …

The classical conceptualization of the working class, of workers' collective action and,
especially, of trade unionism, was implicitly or explicitly based on the Standard Employment …

condition where some people have more precarious lives than others and these are often
the same groups of people who experience precarity at the workplace through unequal …

Inequality represents an extreme environment to which humans must respond. One
phenomenon that contributes to this growing extreme is precarity or the intersection of …

This special issue on precarious labor in global perspective includes analyses of precarious
work in South Africa, Mexico, the United States, China and India. The key strengths of the …

The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of
work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition …

This article pursues two goals. First, it reviews recent literature calling for a revised and
extended history of work. Based on that review, it then explores the possibility of a new …

Recent writing in economic and business history is reexamining major transformations in
world history—industrialization, capitalism, the global economy. This new literature avoids …