Publication type
Journal Article
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Publication date
December 15, 2025
Summary:
Research provides insights into the characteristics and conditions of gig work, but rarely into how individuals enter it or its long-term implications for careers. We present an exploratory social sequence analysis of UK gig workers to examine how occupational histories and types of gig work are connected. By identifying six distinct career trajectories leading up to participation in the gig economy, our findings suggest that a worker’s preceding career constrains the choice of gig work. We contribute a novel typology of gig work and an application of life course methodology to the study of careers that traverse platforms.
Published in
Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 19 , p.484 -505
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.3.0009
ISSN
1745641
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Open Access
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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