ABSTRACT. This article reviews recent literature concerning online contingent labor. Using data from JPMorgan Chase Institute, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding reliance on, and active participation in, labor platforms, percent of adults participating in the online platform economy in each month, percent of participants by length of observed platform career, percent of adults participating on platforms by employment status, and year-over-year growth in the percent of adults participating in the online platform economy each month. Empirical and secondary data are used to support the claim that unruly boundaries are driven by a digital platform logic.
JEL codes: L14; L86

Keywords: online contingent labor; platform business model; employment; service

How to cite: Mirică (Dumitrescu) Cătălina-Oana (2018). “Online Contingent Labor in a Precarious Capitalism: Platform Business Models, Nonstandard Forms of Employment, and Digitally Driven Sharing-Economy Services,” Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics 6(3): 129–135.

Received 30 May 2018 • Received in revised form 21 August 2018
Accepted 23 August 2018 • Available online 12 September 2018

doi:10.22381/JSME6320184