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Beyond the state and digital platforms: (In)formalization of freelance contracting in Russia
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Publication based on the results of:
In book
L. : University College London Press, 2022
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., Geneva : International Labour Organization, 2021
В начале XXI века возникла и стала активно развиваться занятость населения через онлайн-платформы. Это стало отличительной чертой новой цифровой экономики. В настоящей работе прослеживается развитие платформенной занятости фрилансеров в Российской Федерации и на постсоветском пространстве в целом. В исследовании используются уникальные данные четырех онлайн-опросов, проведенных авторами в 2009, 2011, 2014 и 2019 годах на ведущей ...
Added: August 3, 2021
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., Bögenhold D., Economic and Industrial Democracy 2023 P. 1-26
Current debates about the gig economy pay increasing attention to the heterogeneity of platform workers. Using a large sample of 10,574 freelancers from an international online labor market, this article investigates the association between individual work values and career trajectories, constructed as a combination of current employment status and future career intentions. The authors consider ...
Added: January 21, 2020
Shevchuk A., Социология власти 2020 Т. 32 № 1 С. 30-54
The sociology of work paid close attention to the factory and office as the physical and social space where the labor process was directly carried out and where workers faced managerial supervision, control, and power. The article discusses new decentralized forms of labor organization based on digital platforms which connect self-employed workers with clients and ...
Added: July 4, 2020
Prokopov F. T., Novikova V., Бизнес. Общество. Власть 2023 № 50 С. 141-154
One of the key trends of the 21st century is the destandardization of labor relations. Its prime example is the development of platform employment. The proposed article presents the results of a project carried out as part of the university-wide elective program "GR in Modern Russia: Theory and Practice". The purpose of this paper is ...
Added: January 28, 2024
Alexey Tyulyupo, Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., Critical Studies in Media Communication 2021
As many non-standard ways of employment adopt a very restrictive definition of work as the efforts spent at the worker’s core function, this paper aims to highlight the role of communication efforts necessary to succeed in these competitive environments. To shed light on this issue, we refer to online labor markets, where clients have to ...
Added: January 15, 2021
Barsukova S., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2023 Т. 32 № 4 С. 199-207
The book by Strebkov and Shevchuk, published in 2022, “What do we know about freelancers? The Sociology of Free Employment” is devoted to the increasingly popular form of non-standard employment of independent professionals. The authors exclude representatives of physical labor, limiting freelancers to those whose activities are limited to the processing and creative use of ...
Added: January 28, 2024
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., Economic sociology - The European electronic newsletter 2012 Vol. 13 No. 2 P. 37-45
A specific form of informal employment is presented by electronic freelancers, e.g. self-employed professionals working remotely via the Internet. Andrey Shevchuk and Denis Strebkov launched Russian Freelance Survey (RFS) that brought more than 10,000 usable responses in each of two waves in 2008 and 2010, making RFS one of the largest freelance surveys in the ...
Added: November 27, 2012
Shevchuk A., Экономическая социология 2023 Т. 24 № 5 С. 11-53
Contemporary sociology of work pays increasing attention to the study of the work experiences of individuals engaged in digital labour platforms. However, for a deeper understanding of the gig economy, this approach needs to be complemented by an analysis of the digital platforms as organizational structures and social actors. This article proposes a conceptual framework ...
Added: December 1, 2023
Aleksynska M., Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., , in : Gendering Post-soviet space: Demography, Labor Market and Values in Empirical Research. : Springer, 2021. Ch. 13. P. 277-299.
Work through online labour platforms, which match freelancers and clients located anywhere, gained prominence in Russia and Ukraine over the past decade. Using survey data of online freelancers in Russia and Ukraine, this chapter inquiries into gender specifics of online work. It shows that some important structural gender differences in online work exist in both countries. ...
Added: January 21, 2020
Strebkov D., Shevchuk A., Lukina A. et al., Экономическая социология 2019 Т. 20 № 3 С. 25-65
Added: June 17, 2019
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., , in : Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies. : Springer, 2017. Ch. 22. P. 401-419.
Drawing on a unique dataset of 9685 Internet freelancers, we shed light on the entrepreneurial potential of the Russian-language online labour market, where more than half of freelancers exhibit entrepreneurial orientations. Our findings reveal heterogeneity of Internet freelancers in relation to entrepreneurship documenting strong differences amongst groups of actual entrepreneurs, potential entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs in ...
Added: October 11, 2017
Strebkov D., Shevchuk A., Вопросы экономики 2011 № 10 С. 91-112
Статья посвящена электронной самозанятости - новому явлению на рынке труда, возникшему в ходе становления информационного общества. На основе богатого эмпирического материала, полученного авторами в ходе онлайн-опросов, анализируется стремительно растущий сегмент самозанятых профессионалов (фрилансеров), работающих удаленно через Интернет. В частности рассматриваются: социально-демографические и профессиональные характеристики фрилансеров, мотивация и организация труда, отношения с заказчиками, уровень доходов и ...
Added: September 21, 2012
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., Tyulyupo Alexey, New Technology, Work and Employment 2021 Vol. 36 No. 1 P. 94-113
This study investigates work schedules in online labour markets, operating in 24/7 mode across spatial borders and
time zones. Focusing on largely hidden and invisible work of freelancers such as searching for jobs and communicating with clients, the study documents how platforms put pressures and constraints on freelancers’ time through the mechanism of task allocation. We ...
Added: January 21, 2020
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., Bögenhold D., Work and Occupations 2016
Added: January 29, 2015
Shevchuk A., Социология власти 2022 № 3-4 С. 128-155
With the digitalization of the economy and society, varieties of “platform capitalism” appear in the world. The article presents the first attempt at a critical understanding of the “gig economy” model that is taking shape in contemporary Russia. By problematizing the narratives that dominate foreign studies of platform employment, the author shows the embeddedness of ...
Added: July 13, 2023
Strebkov D., Социологический журнал 2023 Т. 29 № 3 С. 70-92
Digital platforms form a highly competitive online environment where workers have to compete actively for projects and clients, using not only their professional knowledge and skills, but also special soft skills of self-presentation and self-organization, in order to increase the chances of success. Our goal is to show how construction and repair workers present themselves ...
Added: September 28, 2023
Strebkov D., Shevchuk A., Экономическая социология 2009 Т. 10 № 5 С. 11-32
The study deals with e-markets for self-employed professionals (freelancers). These highly competitive markets emerge in a still weakly regulated cyberspace with virtual interactions. However, market ties between freelancers and their clients are not established as arm's-length but largely as embedded ties. Social capital of freelancers becomes an effective instrument for fi nding the clients, raising ...
Added: September 4, 2012
Strebkov D., Shevchuk A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2019 № 3 С. 86-102
The study problematizes the role of flexible working hours in the life of self-employed professionals (freelancers). High levels of autonomy to manage time not only bring benefits but may also lead to self-exploitation. The study is based on the data of the online survey “Freelancer Census” (2019) and the RLMS-HSE (2017). The authors argue that ...
Added: July 6, 2019
Khusyainov T., Цифровой ученый: лаборатория философа 2020 Т. 3 № 3 С. 53-59
В данной реплике к дискуссии о платформенном урбанизме автор уделяет внимание отдельному аспекту влияния внедрения платформ на рынок труда. Проникновение платформ в городское пространство оказывает заметное воздействие на общественные структуры и отношения, в том числе и на трудовую деятельность, меняя специфику занятости, условия труда, и сказываются на положении самих работников. Так, можно предположить, что далеко ...
Added: October 12, 2020
Shevchuk A., Свободная мысль 2010 № 6 С. 107-120
Развитие информационно-коммуникационных технологий (особенно Интернета) способствовало широкому распространению разнообразных форм «электронной» самозанятости, основанных на принципе удаленной работы. При этом с точки зрения трудовой автономии они варьируются от действительно свободного профессионального труда «электронных фрилансеров» до зависимого положения операторов «виртуальных центров обработки вызовов», подобно наемному персоналу испытывающих ее дефицит к тому же при отсутствии социальных гарантий. Эти ...
Added: June 1, 2016
Старовойтенко А. Д., ИНТЕРакция. ИНТЕРвью. ИНТЕРпретация 2022 Т. 14 № 3 С. 55-75
Despite the enormous amounts of human resources engaged in warehousing, warehouse labor remains virtually invisible to the public, both among consumers and in the academia. A lot of research is dedicated to the transformation of labor relations within platform economy, including precarity and “uberization” of labor, as well as digital technology-mediated surveillance and control over ...
Added: October 11, 2022
Strebkov D., Shevchuk A., Problems of Economic Transition 2012 Vol. 55 No. 5 P. 76-97
The article is devoted to electronic self-employment as a new labor-market phenomenon in the information society. The authors analyze the growing sector of freelancers working remotely via the Internet. Extensive quantitative data from online standardized surveys reveal the main demographic, social and professional characteristics of Russian-speaking e-lancers, as well as motivational, organizational and financial issues. ...
Added: October 17, 2012
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., / Высшая школа экономики. Series SOC "Sociology". 2012. No. 12/SOC/2012.
Based on a sample of 5,784 Russian-speaking respondents, this study provides the first quantitative evidence on freelance contracting via the Internet. We explore the extent to which these virtual business relations are formal or informal, and the role of social capital and
networking. Our data suggest freelancers act under constant threat of malfeasance from clients. We ...
Added: December 19, 2012
Shevchuk A., Strebkov D., , in : Contemporary Entrepreneurship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Innovation and Growth. : Springer, 2016. P. 141-158.
This study contributes to the literature on heterogeneous self-employment by investigating the diversity of work motivation. Using two samples obtained from freelancers, who participate in online freelance marketplaces, we analyze the relationship between individual work values and self-employment situations. Principal component analysis (PCA) revealed four value dimensions: (1) intrinsic, (2) social, (3) comfort, and (4) ...
Added: September 28, 2015