Practice question · Multiple choice
A platform sets prices, routes and deactivation rules while classifying its workers as independent contractors. Which sociological concept names the tension?
Hints
- List what the platform decides. Then ask what is left for the 'independent' contractor to decide.
- The legal label and the actual relationship have come apart. Which one carries the protections?
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C. Control without employment: direction without protection
Why
Subordination is what employment law tests for and what the algorithm supplies, so the classification survives on form while the substance points the other way. Courts across Europe have reclassified on exactly this reasoning, which is why the question is sociological before it is legal.
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