Digital technologies, gig work and labour share
通过制度理论视角，追溯英国自1980年代以来的劳动灵活化策略，分析数字技术如何与非标准合同和依赖性自雇结合，推动零工经济发展，并论证这使雇主在广度和深度上获得更大劳动投入灵活性，同时数字平台通过垄断-买方垄断关系压低劳动份额。
Abstract Conflict over the functional income distribution, discussed and explained in Keith Cowling’s work in the 1980s, remains a feature of capitalist economies. In the twenty first century labour flexibilisation strategies have become a key tool in enabling monopoly capitalists to manipulate the functional distribution of income. Through the lens of institutional theory, this paper traces labour flexibilisation in the UK since the 1980s, in order to describe and evaluate how the use of digital technologies has become allied to non-standard contracting and ‘dependent’ self-employment in the growth of the gig economy. The paper argues that this provides employers with increased flexibility of the labour input at both extensive and intensive margins. Digital technology and gig working also position dominant internet platform businesses to apply downward pressure to labour share at a monopoly-monopsony nexus between individual consumers and new service sector workers. This has led to new ways in which employment contracts and the nature of organisations as an outcome of monopoly capitalist labour process are contested.