1. Introduction: Janus meets proteus in the platform economy / Jan Drahokoupil and Kurt Vandaele -- Part I: Context and issues -- 2. The business models of labour platforms: Creating an uncertain future / Jan Drahokoupil -- 3. Moving on, out or up: The externalization of work to B2B platforms / Pamela Meil and Mehtap Akgü. -- 4. Measuring the platform economy: Different approaches to estimating the size of the online platform workforce / Agnieszka Piasna -- 5. A historical perspective on the drivers of digital labour platforms / Gérard Valenduc -- 6. The platform economy at the forefront of a changing world of work: Implications for occupational health and safety / Pierre Bérastégui and Sacha Garben -- 7. How place and space matter to union organizing in the platform economy / Benjamin Herr, Philip Schörpf and Jörg Flecker -- Part II: Regulating platform work -- 8. Embedding platforms in contemporary labour law / Valerio De Stefano and Mathias Wouters -- 9. The regulation of platform work in the European Union: Mapping the challenges / Sacha Garben -- 10. Workers, platforms and the state: The struggle over digital labour platform regulation / Sai Englert, Mark Graham, Sandra Fredman, Darcy du Toit, Adam Badger, Richard Heeks and Jean-Paul Van Belle -- 11. Trade union responses to platform work: An evolving tension between mainstream and grassroots approaches / Simon Joyce and Mark Stuart -- Part III: Case studies across the globe: Online labour platforms -- 12. The uneven potential of online platform work for human development at the global margins / Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Alex J. Wood, Helena Barnard, Isis Hjorth and David Peter Simon -- 13. From outsourcing to crowdsourcing: Assessing the implications for Indian workers of different outsourcing strategies / Janine Berg, Uma Rani and Nora Gobel -- 14. The geographic and linguistic variety of online labour markets: The cases of Russia and Ukraine / Mariya Aleksynska, Andrey Shevchuk and Denis Strebkov -- Part IV: Case studies across the globe: Location-based labour platforms -- 15. Aliada and alia: Contrasting for-profit and non-profit platforms for domestic work in Mexico and the United States / Andrea Santiago Páramo and Carlos Piñeyro Nelson -- 16. The role of worker collectives among app-based food delivery couriers in France, Germany and Norway: All the same or different? / Kristin Jesnes, Denis Neumann, Vera Trappmann and Pauline de Becdelièvre -- 17. The pitfalls and promises of successfully organizing foodora couriers in Toronto / Raoul Gebert -- 18. Labour management and resistance among platform-based food delivery couriers in Beijing / Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ping Sun and Julie Chen -- 19. Struggles over the power and meaning of digital labour platforms: A comparison of the Vienna, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles taxi markets / Hannah Johnston and Susanne Pernicka -- 20. Passenger transport in Australia: Injury compensation, public policy and the health pandemic / David Peetz -- Part V: Closing thoughts -- 21. Institutional experimentation and the challenges of platform labour / Maria Figueroa -- Index.