Policy Implications of Virtual Work

Part I. Concepts and Debates

1. Introduction: The Policy Implications of Virtual Work
Pamela Meil, Vassil Kirov

2. Where Did Online Platforms Come From? The Virtualization of Work Organization and the New Policy Challenges it Raises
Ursula Huws

Part II. Measuring Virtual Work

3. Crowd Employment and ICT-Based Mobile Work—New Employment Forms in Europe
Irene Mandl, Maurizio Curtarelli

Part III. Discourses and Principles of Regulation

4. Regulating the Void: Online Participatory Cultures, User-Generated Content, and the Digital Agenda for Europe
Bjarki Valtysson

5. The Imperative of Code: Labor, Regulation and Legitimacy
Shenja Graaf, Eran Fisher

Part IV. Sharing, Cooperating and Streaming in the Digital Economy

6. Assessing Music Streaming and Industry Disruptions
Daniel Nordgård

7. Information and Communication Technologies, Citizens, and Parliament in Portugal: The Continued E-Democracy Gap and Lessons from the Obama Experience
Carlos Cunha, Filipa Seiceira

8. Sharing Economy as an Urban Phenomenon: Examining Policies for Sharing Cities
Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice, Ivana Pais

Part V. Organizing, Protecting and Regulating Labor

9. Workers, Contradictions and Digital Commodity Chains: Organizing with Content Creators in Canada
Karen Wirsig, James Compton

10. Digitalization of Public Services in Europe: Policy Challenges for the European Trade Union Movement
Vassil Kirov

11. The Legal Protection of Crowdworkers: Four Avenues for Workers’ Rights in the Virtual Realm
Jeremias Prassl, Martin Risak

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Policy, Sociology of Work, Media Sociology, Labour Law/Social Law