Designing for Labour: Uber and the On-Demand Mobile Workforce

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• Publication date

  2016-05-07

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Business, Economics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1145/2858036.2858476
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