Alex Wood

Oxford Internet Institute

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University of Oxford

Oxford OX1 3PG Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire OX1 3JS

United Kingdom

University of Oxford

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Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 4AU

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Platform Labour and Structured Antagonism: Understanding the Origins of Protest in the Gig Economy

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Apr 2019
Alex Wood, Alex Wood and Vili Lehdonvirta
Oxford Internet Institute and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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Employee voice; flexibility; industrial relations; technology; trade unions

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Platform Precarity: Surviving Algorithmic Insecurity in the Gig Economy

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2021
Alex Wood, Alex Wood and Vili Lehdonvirta
Oxford Internet Institute and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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Algorithms, gig economy, platform, precarious work, insecurity, resistance

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Workers of the Internet Unite? Online Freelancer Organisation Among Remote Gig Economy Workers in Six Asian and African Countries

Wood A.J, Lehdonvirta V and Graham M (2018) Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries. New Technology, Work and Employment 33(2):95-112.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 31 Jul 2018
Alex Wood, Alex Wood, Vili Lehdonvirta and Mark Graham
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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freelance, gig economy, collective action, collective organisation, union, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, digital labour

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The Taylor Review: Understanding the Gig Economy, Dependency and the Complexities of Control

New Technology, Work and Employment, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Apr 2019
Alex Wood and Alex Wood
Oxford Internet Institute
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control, dependency, gig economy, labour process, power

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The Power of Social Media as a Labour Campaigning Tool: Lessons from Our Walmart and the Fight for 15

Pasquier V and Wood AJ (2018) ETUI Policy Brief, European Economic, Employment and Social Policy, N° 10/2018. ETUI: Brussels.
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Aug 2018
Alex Wood, Alex Wood and Vincent Pasquier
Oxford Internet Institute and Grenoble Ecole de Management
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Fight for $15, OUR Walmart, Unions, Internet, Social media, Networks, Collective action

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Minimum Wages for Online Labor Platforms?: Regulating the Global Gig Economy

Wood A.J, Graham M and Anwar A, Minimum Wages for Online Labor Platforms? Regulating the Global Gig Economy.' In Larsson A and Teigland R (Eds) 'The Digital Transformation of Labor (Open Access): Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare. London: Routledge, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 26 Jul 2019
Alex Wood, Alex Wood, Mark Graham and Mohammad Amir Anwar
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute and Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Gig economy, Online labor platforms, Remote workers, Labor market, Asia, Africa

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Unemployment and Well-Being

Wood A.J and Burchell B.J (2017) Unemployment in the 21st Century. In Lewis A (2018) Cambridge Handbook of Economics and Psychology 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Aug 2018
Alex Wood and Alex Wood
Oxford Internet Institute
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Unemployment, Employment, Well-being, Insecurity, Jahoda, Stress, Anxiety

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Antagonism Beyond Employment: How the ‘Subordinated Agency’ of Labour Platforms Generates Conflict in the Remote Gig Economy

Socio-Economic Review, 2021
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Apr 2021
Alex Wood, Alex Wood and Vili Lehdonvirta
Oxford Internet Institute and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy

Wood AJ, Graham M, Lehdonvirta V, Hjorth I (2018) Good gig, bad gig: autonomy and algorithmic control in the global gig economy. Work, Employment and Society 0(0): 1-20.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Aug 2018
Alex Wood, Alex Wood, Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta and Isis Hjorth
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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Workplace regimes: A sociological defence and elaboration

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Jan 2022
Alex Wood and Alex Wood
Oxford Internet Institute
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Burawoy, embeddedness, managerial control, labour process theory, workplace regimes

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Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles In The Remote Gig Economy

Sociology, 2022
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Sep 2022
Alex Wood, Alex Wood and Vili Lehdonvirta
Oxford Internet Institute and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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Algorithms, embeddedness, gig economy, insecurity, platform, precarious work, resistance

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Virtual Production Networks: Fixing Commodification and Disembeddedness

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Jun 2021
Alex Wood, Alex Wood, Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Helena Barnard and Isis Hjorth
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Pretoria - Gordon Institute of Business Science and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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digital labor, embeddedness, gig economy, global production networks, online platforms

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Beyond Mobilisation at McDonald’s: Towards Networked Organising

Wood AJ (2020) Beyond mobilisation at McDonald’s: Towards Networked Organising. Capital and Class.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 29 Apr 2020
Alex Wood and Alex Wood
Oxford Internet Institute
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Fight for $15, MacDonald’s, mobilisation, organising, OUR Walmart, protest, social media, union renewal

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Flexible Despotism: Workplace Control in the Informational Age

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 27 Mar 2021
Alex Wood and Alex Wood
Oxford Internet Institute
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Control, Flexibility, Scheduling, Workplace Regimes