Dr Tom Barratt is a DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Management and Organisations Department of the Business School at The University of Western Australia. His work as a labour geographer investigates working in the gig economy and in peripheral extractive regions.
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Australian consumers support better protections for gig workers
What is the quality, rather than the quantity, of the jobs that we wish to tolerate as a society?