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Exploring the impact of legislative absences on the working environment of gig workers in South Africa
Originally published 2026-10-12 · Frontiers in Sociology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1824697 ↗
AI / system type
Platform labor and algorithmic management across location-based and remote online work
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Platform labor and algorithmic management across location-based and remote online work. Algorithmic management/control is not assumed to be machine learning or generative AI.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings legislative exclusion and everyday insecurity in platform labor into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers qualitative phenomenological interview study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is legislative exclusion and everyday insecurity in platform labor. Source setting or population: 10 purposively sampled gig workers in Johannesburg, South Africa. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
What protections can fall through the gaps when work is managed through platforms?
This qualitative phenomenological interview study examines legislative exclusion and everyday insecurity in platform labor. Its TRICK home is Respect, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
10 purposively sampled gig workers in Johannesburg, South Africa
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- What protections can fall through the gaps when work is managed through platforms?
- What do this study’s design and population — 10 purposively sampled gig workers in Johannesburg, South Africa — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering legislative exclusion and everyday insecurity in platform labor, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
A small purposive qualitative sample is not representative; legal interpretation is jurisdiction-specific and does not provide individual legal advice.
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Zini Gwele; Calvin Mabaso; Xavier Knight (2026). Exploring the impact of legislative absences on the working environment of gig workers in South Africa Frontiers in Sociology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1824697
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