In this thesis, we discussed the phenomenon of platform work, which is increasingly becoming present in Slovenia. Based on the existing literature on platform economy and taking into account our own research, which was based on the analysis of ten semi-structured interviews, we structured our research around the following research questions: what are the business models of platform companies, how do worker-platform-client-management relations work, how many labour and social rights do platform workers have, how do platform workers subjectively perceive their position within the platform, what is the current labour law regulation of platform companies and platform work, how does work-related precarity manifest itself at work in platform companies, how do companies establish surveillance over workers and the work process, are workers individualised, and what is the role of lean economics in the organisation of work through online platforms. We have found that workers do not reflect their class position, that workers produce productive resources in the form of information and provide their labour means, that work is precarious and unregulated, that work contains elements of an employment relationship, that labour laws are violated, that platform companies present themselves as technology companies due to evasion of responsibility, and that workers also exercise self-surveillance themselves. It has also been established that participants in the platform economy are interpellated into a neoliberal ideology of self-entrepreneurship, which has partly changed as certain two companies have monopolised the market and worsened working conditions.
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