Are young people aged 16-19 using or expecting to use the gig economy for their careers? | Zendy

Esther Galfalvi | Zendy; Tristram Hooley | Zendy; Siobhan Neary | Zendy

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Are young people aged 16-19 using or expecting to use the gig economy for their careers?

Author(s) -

Esther Galfalvi,

Tristram Hooley,

Siobhan Neary

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of the national institute for career education and counselling

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2059-4879

pISSN - 2046-1348

DOI - 10.20856/jnicec.4505

Subject(s) - gig economy , work (physics) , autonomy , flexibility (engineering) , precarity , business , sharing economy , public relations , marketing , engineering , sociology , political science , management , economics , computer science , world wide web , mechanical engineering , gender studies , law

34| Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling Amid growing precarity and zero hour contracts, the ‘gig economy’ represents a new way of working mediated by web technology. Workers can sign up to a work platform – a website or smartphone program that manages the work automatically – and take on work at the tap of a button. Some platforms manage labour, such as driving for Uber or delivering food for Deliveroo, while others manage retail activity, such as Ebay or Etsy.

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