The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work: Insights from the Food Delivery Sector - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1035321130 ISBN 13: 9781035321131

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

Multidisciplinary in scope, The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work comprehensively analyses the dynamics and trends of the app-based food delivery sector in the platform economy. Adopting a comparative approach, it examines the regulatory developments in the field at EU level and beyond.

Bringing together a diverse array of leading experts, this Companion goes beyond exploring pure labour issues, delving into the societal dynamics at play in the sector. The various actors in app-based food delivery are identified and key themes such as the mobilisation of food delivery couriers, their issues and grievances, and their working conditions are discussed. Regulatory reforms including the Platform Work Directive 2024 and the outcomes of courier mobilisation are explored in addition to alternatives to corporate platforms.

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work is a fundamental resource for academics and students of sociology and social policy, labour policy and economics and employment relations law. Practitioners, policymakers, trade unionists and labour advocates will also find the book’s practical implications to be of great benefit.

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Kurt Vandaele, Senior Researcher and Silvia Rainone, Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels, Belgium

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035321130
• ISBN 13: 9781035321131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Vandaele Kurt, Rainone Silvia