From the digital platforms that connect self-employed workers to customers, to challenges of workers when organising themselves in cooperative enterprises. The Platform Labor Group brings together a large diversity of researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam and beyond, who study platform labour in the broadest sense. Founded in September 2021 by Mariana Fried and Claartje ter Hoeven, the group shares a common interest in understanding how technology-mediated form of labour is organised, regulated, and experienced.
The group occasionally gets together to discuss their work or a specific issue with a guest speaker, such as the EU Platform Work Directive. They have also hosted public events, including a documentary festival and a panel on 'Working in the Platform Economy' in which researchers, platform workers, and policymakers came together to reflect on working conditions and regulatory challenges.
Updates / Events
To receive updates or to join our meetings, please email Anna Elias (elias@iss.nl) or Phuong Hoan Le (p.h.le@essb.eur.nl)
Alkım YalınLecturer
Platform labor, content creators, e-commerce platforms, precarious work, digital ethnographyEmail address
Anna EliasPhD Researcher
Impact of digital platforms on livelihoods in the Indian informal sectorEmail address
Anne HeslingaPhD Candidate
Platform-dependent entrepreneurship, creative industries, generative AI, digital gamesEmail address
Francisca GromméAssistant Professor / AIPact Fellow
Hybrid employment in the platform economy: Who is juggling multiple jobs and how?; Towards a Gig Nursing Economy? The Role of Platforms in Self-Employed Nursing WorkEmail address- Greetje (Greta) Corporaal
Assistant Professor in Organisation and Digitization
Digital technology, work and organizations, digital labor platforms and AI, expertise, qualitative fieldworkEmail address 
Iris WallenburgFull Professor
Platform work, assetization of care, healthcare politics & policyEmail address
Jing HiahAssistant Professor Criminology
Migration & mobility, gender, social harms in work and employment, labour exploitationEmail address
Justien DingelstadPhD Candidate
AI-driven technologies, day-to-day work practices, health care, ethnographyEmail address
Phuong Hoan LeAssistant Professor of HR, Organisation and Management
Gig workers, digital labor platforms, social identity theory, (online) communities, qualitative/quantitative methodsEmail address
Roy HuijsmansTeacher / Researcher
Platform-mediated work, migration, mobile ethnographyEmail address- Sofie Schuller
PhD Candidate Utrecht University
Digital platform work, worker well-being, self-determination theory, future of workEmail address