Serf-ing the net: contrasting Uber workers in the UK with Uber neo-villeins in Ontario

Harvey, Geraint, Prakasam, Naveena and Shakirzhanov, Refat (2025) Serf-ing the net: contrasting Uber workers in the UK with Uber neo-villeins in Ontario. Industrial Relations Journal. (doi:10.1111/irj.12471).

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Abstract

We illustrate the exploitation in the relationship between Uber and its drivers by aligning their work with the characteristics of neo-villeiny. Two different legal developments in response to irregulation (or the lack of effective regulation) in similar institutional contexts emerge. While Uber drivers in the United Kingdom now have worker status, dysregulation (by which we mean regulation that exacerbates the problem it seeks to resolve) in Ontario has established neo-villeiny in law.

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