ABSTRACT

This brief final chapter reflects on the overall argument of the book, that the technological advancement that has given rise to platform-enabled on-demand work requires a regulatory response, beyond trying to squeeze some of these workers into the 20th century paradigm of ‘employment’. New forms of regulation (or at least, the adaptation of well-known forms) are necessary to fairly recognise the contribution that these workers make in contemporary society, and to maintain the kind of egalitarian civil society that we want to live in.