Practice question · Multiple choice
Spain legislated in 2021 to presume an employment relationship for delivery platform couriers. Why did the classification of those workers matter so much to sociologists of work?
Hints
- Ask what a worker gains and loses by being an employee rather than self-employed.
- The whole apparatus of labour protection is attached to a status, not to the work itself.
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B. Employment status determines access to collective bargaining, social security, and protection
Why
A century of labour institutions — bargaining, contributions, unfair dismissal, working time — is attached to the employee category. Reclassifying work as self-employment removes all of it at once without changing what anyone actually does, which is why the boundary rather than the pay level became the site of the conflict.
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