Gig-workers are often not regarded as employees by the platforms they work with. Yet they do not always have all the freedoms enjoyed by independent contractors. The world of work is changing, and this is one area in which the new realities need to be better understood in order to promote human dignity, protect the vulnerable and foster flourishing. To achieve this, justice and fairness need to be researched and innovatively translated into new forms of work in diverse ways and in various cultures. This edited collection explores and examines ways in which the humanistic management and fairness considerations help to humanise the way gig-workers are treated, with particular attention paid to economies in the global south.

Countries represented in the case study section are Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya, Nigeria, South Korea, and Uganda, and both traditional and innovative lenses of fairness and ethics are applied to these new forms of work. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of work and employment, digital business, human resource management and business ethics.

Explores the rapidly growing gig economy through the lenses of ethics, fairness and care Calls for the humanistic perspective to be embedded in the management of gig workers A global set of experts explore cases from South Korea and the underrepresented global south

Autorentext

Kemi Ogunyemi is Professor of Business Ethics at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria, where she also teaches managerial anthropology, self-leadership and sustainability management. She was for many years the director of the Christopher Kolade Centre for Research in Leadership and Ethics as well as the academic director for the School's Senior Management Programme. Her consulting and research interests include personal ethos, work-life ethic, social responsibility, sustainability, governance and anti-corruption risk assessment.

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Chapter 1: Humanistic Management and the Gig Economy: Fairness Considerations, Kemi Ogunyemi.- Section 1: General Reflections.- Chapter 2: Gig Work: Challenges and Solutions from a Humanistic Perspective, Maria Pia Chirinos.- Chapter 3: Gig Working from the Perspective of FairWork Principles, Kathleen Farrell.- Chapter 4: Human Resource Frontiers: Pioneering Human Innovations for Fair Treatment of Workers in the Gig Economy, B. S. Patil and M. R. Suji Raga Priya.- Chapter 5: Balancing Fairness and Care through Aesthetical Lens in Humanistic Management in the Gig Economy, Michael Szostak.- Chapter 6: Gig Work in the Context of Disability, Marek wiklicki, Norbert Laurisz and Agnieszka Pacut.- Chapter 7: Reimagining a Ubuntu-inspired Model to Address Precarity and Vulnerability in the African Gig Economy, Jacobs (Mbango) Sihela and Michael Paulse.- Case Studies.- Chapter 8: Location-Based Gig-Work in Emerging Economies: A Literature Review, Promise Zvavahera, Farai Chigora and Emanuel Aquino.- Chapter 9: The Challenges for Fair Work in Digital Platforms in Colombia: A Critical Exploration on Embodied Justice and Responsibility, Oscar Javier Maldonado and Derly Sanchez Vargas.- Chapter 10: Fairness Dilemmas of Location-Based Gig Work: Case Study of East African Countries, Rehema Kiarie.- Chapter 11: Enhancing Gig Economy Sustainability Humanistic Management and Platform-based Work: The Case of South Korea, Hurak Lee and Ivan Ureta.- Chapter 12: Experiences and Perceptions on Gig-work in Uganda, Joshua Mugambwa, David Andabati and Brian Muyomba.- Chapter 13: How Fair are Digital Labor Platforms in Brazil? Evidence from Fairwork Brazil, Julice Salvagni, Claudia Nociolini Rebechi, Jonas C. L. Valente, Rafael Grohmann, Rodrigo Carelli and Roseli Figaro.- Chapter 14: Beyond Profit: Navigating Fairness in Lagos Gig Work, Ogechi Obiorah, Amaka Juliet Anozie, Ibironke Ojesebholo, Chiwe Mama, Kemi Ogunyemi and Oluwatosin Onayemi.- Chapter 15: Humanizing the Posthuman in Ecuador, Maria Belen Albornoz.- Chapter 16: Towards a Fairer Gig Economy: Insights from around the World, Kemi Ogunyemi.