Introduction
1: Work on Demand
2: Double Speak
3: Lost in the Crowd
4: The Innovation Paradox
5: Disrupting the Disruptors
6: Levelling the Playing Field
Epilogue
Jeremias Prassl is a Fellow of Magdalen College and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Oxford University. He advises public and private sector organisations around the world on regulating the gig economy, and tweets about the future of work @JeremiasPrassl.
Timely and thought-provoking, Humans as a Service is an important
examination of the consequences of an important, disruptive
economic development.
*Ray Bert, Civil Engineering*
4*: [A] comprehensive look at the gig economy.
*Shantha David, Law Society Gazette*
An engaging, illustrative, and thought-provoking book.
*Václav Janecek, Oxford Business Law Blog*
An engaging and readable account of the legal and policy issues
that underpin the debate about the protection of those working in
the gig economy... [an] elegantly written [and] concise work....
recommended for anyone who wants to understand the wider context of
work in the gig economy and its engagement with employment law.
*Charles Wynn-Evans, Employment Lawyers Association's ELA
Briefing*
This book offers a seminal account of the main features of work in
the gig economy, providing a considerable amount of information and
interesting insights on a varied and rapidly varying phenomenon ...
the findings of the book, which illuminates the promises and
especially the perils of on-demand work, provide an extremely
valuable contribution to the overall discussion.
*Marco Biasi, European Journal of Social Security*
The arguments Jeremias Prassl offers in this book will change the
way you think about at work and labor law in a changing economy. It
is a brilliant and fascinating book. A triumph.
*David Schleicher, Professor of Law, Yale Law School*
The sudden arrival of the 'gig economy', and its exponential global
growth, took both academics and policy-makers by surprise, exposing
some regulations as no longer fit for purpose in the volatile
conditions of digital global labour markets. Prassl provides us
with a magisterial overview, cutting through starry-eyed myths
about entrepreneurship, while exposing the realities of work that
is managed by algorithms. This is essential reading for anyone who
wants to understand not just the inadequacies of current legal
frameworks for regulating this runaway new form of work
organisation, but also, and more importantly, to do something about
it, to create the basis for a sustainable new model of employment
protection fit for the 21st century.
*Ursula Huws, Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of
Hertfordshire*
Prassl offers a good survey of the literature... Humans as a
Service should guide you to other useful avenues of thought as we
seek to rethink employment law for the future of work.
*David Cowan, Global Legal Post*
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