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Articles | Volume 81, issue 3
Articles | Volume 81, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-535-2026
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Articles | Volume 81, issue 3
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30 Sep 2026
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Landscapes of precarious labour: on the long prehistory and contingent future of digital platforms

Moritz Altenried and Mira Wallis

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Digital platforms are often seen as innovative, but our research argues that they build on long-standing forms of precarious work. By tracing historical examples of home-based labour, task-based pay, short-term hiring, and labour middlemen, we show that today’s gig economy builds on older practices of precarious labour while reconfiguring them through digital technologies. This perspective reveals that platform work is part of a wider landscape of precarious labour.
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