We congratulate Sara Maric, Elke Schüßler and Laura Thäter on their recent publication in the British Journal of Industrial Relation titled “Neither Employment nor Self-Employment: Avenues Towards Functional Platform-Mediated Work Systems". Building on David Marsden’s theory of employment systems, this paper offers an employment relations perspective on platform labour. In this paper, the authors synthesize and connect insights from existing research, going beyond the prevailing debates on worker classification. Moreover, they propose an integrative framework for analyzing elements that influence platform work conditions, including transparency, control, and the potential for collective bargaining. Understanding these elements can support practitioners in trade unions and other labour organizations both, in providing the necessary assistance to platform workers, as well as shaping policy changes towards more fairness and protection for worker rights in a growing digital labour market.
 
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