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QUT Centre for Justice has just published a series of Briefing Papers on Digital Platform Work in the Gig Economy, featuring multi-disciplinary research from QUT, including research sponsored through a QUT Centre for Justice MPhil Scholarship to Mrs Phuong Ahn Tran.
QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Papers are short (2000 word), peer-reviewed accounts of topics and issues related to justice.
This Briefing Papers Series present new data on digital platform work in Australia, and show how, in these times of cost-of-living pressures, more people are turning to platforms such as Uber and Airtasker to earn an additional income.
In a paper led by Associate Professor Penny Williams titled, Digital platform work in Australia: Findings from National Prevalence Surveys in 2019 and 2023, the findings from two National surveys (2019 and 2023) are compared to demonstrate growth in the number people turning to digital platform work, and an overall rise in the number of digital platforms in Australia.
In the second paper, led by Prof Robyn Mayes titled, A gender analysis of digital platform work in Australia we learn how despite growth and a new way of working, gender segregation and inequalities persist even in the gig economy.
Finally, Phuong Ahn Tran and her co-authors present the findings from her MPhil research (supported with a Centre for Justice scholarship) titled, Autonomy or Fair Earnings? An Organisational Justice perspective on Digital Platform Work which considers how workers perceive the fairness of their platform work earnings and their sense of autonomy to choose their tasks and the hours they work.
Collectively the team, that also includes Profs Paula McDonald and Andrew Stewart, and Dr Maria Hameed Khan, give voice to gig workers in these papers, and bring new insights into the challenges of fair pay and conditions in the gig economy.
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