Eva Kocher – författare

This open access book shows how to design labour rights to effectively protect digital platform workers, organise accountability on digital work platforms, and guarantee workers’ collective representation and action. It acknowledges that digital work platforms entail enormous risks for workers, and at the same time it reveals the extent to which labour law is in need of reconstruction.The book focusses on the conceptual links – often overlooked in the past – between labour law’s categories and its regulatory approaches. By explaining and analysing the wealth of approaches that deconstruct and reconceptualise labour law, the book uncovers the organisational ideas that permeate labour law’s categories as well as its policy approaches in a variety of jurisdictions. These ideas reveal a lack of fit between labour law’s traditional concepts and digital platform work: digital work platforms rarely behave like hierarchical organisations; instead, they more often function as market organisers. The book provides a fresh perspective for international academic and policy debates on the regulation of digital work platforms, as well as on the purposes and foundations of labour law. It offers a way out of the impasse the debate around labour law classification has reached, by showing what labour law could learn from digital law approaches to platforms – and vice versa.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

This open access book shows how to design labour rights to effectively protect digital platform workers, organise accountability on digital work platforms, and guarantee workers’ collective representation and action. It acknowledges that digital work platforms entail enormous risks for workers, and at the same time it reveals the extent to which labour law is in need of reconstruction.The book focusses on the conceptual links – often overlooked in the past – between labour law’s categories and its regulatory approaches. By explaining and analysing the wealth of approaches that deconstruct and reconceptualise labour law, the book uncovers the organisational ideas that permeate labour law’s categories as well as its policy approaches in a variety of jurisdictions. These ideas reveal a lack of fit between labour law’s traditional concepts and digital platform work: digital work platforms rarely behave like hierarchical organisations; instead, they more often function as market organisers. The book provides a fresh perspective for international academic and policy debates on the regulation of digital work platforms, as well as on the purposes and foundations of labour law. It offers a way out of the impasse the debate around labour law classification has reached, by showing what labour law could learn from digital law approaches to platforms – and vice versa.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

This edited collection unravels the multiple ways in which digital intermediaries have transformed the domestic and care work sector – and what this development entails for the regulation of digital labour platforms.Domestic and care work is work like any other – but also work like no other. As a consequence, digital intermediaries in these sectors fulfil partly different functions than other digital labour platforms. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary socio-legal approach, the book is organised into four parts. The first section describes the different business models used in various geographical areas and analyses the ways in which digital intermediaries reshape these markets. The second section examines how digital intermediaries adapt their structures and organisations to regulatory and institutional frameworks, while also exploiting regulatory gaps and grey zones. The third part of the book highlights the experiences of domestic workers who develop novel forms of platform cooperatives with the potential for better working conditions and a stronger voice. The fourth part of the books looks at the legal and regulatory challenges, discussing the challenge of classifying digital intermediation in care and domestic work not only in relation to employment/self-employment, but also in relation to the third party in the triangular relationship: the private household. The book analyses cases from South and Central Europe, Southeast Europe, the UK, South Africa and Latin America; its interdisciplinary approach, with sociological, anthropological and legal perspectives make the book an important reference in this emerging field of study.

Verbraucherschutz fordert die Zivilprozessrechtsdogmatiken heraus, grundlegende gesellschaftliche Funktionen des Gerichtsverfahrens zu rekonstruieren. Eva Kocher untersucht im Rechtsvergleich Deutschland/England einerseits verbraucherprozessrechtliche Formen der Repräsentation von Interessen (insbesondere Verbandsklagen) und andererseits Instrumente der Entformalisierung des Individualprozesses (wie zum Beispiel Bagatellverfahren oder die gerichtliche Schlichtung). Hierzu entwickelt sie Begriffe von "Rechtsprechung" und ihren "Alternativen", die institutionen- und rechtsordnungsübergreifend geeignet sind, Funktionen der Konfliktlösung durch Verfahren herauszuarbeiten. Im Ergebnis plädiert die Autorin dafür, judikative und nicht-judikative Funktionen von Gerichtsverfahren deutlich auszudifferenzieren. Konfliktlösung auf Verbrauchermärkten vermag Rechtsprechung auch dort zu leisten, wo sie verrechtlichten Kollektivgütern bzw. kollektive Interessen zur Wirksamkeit verhilft. Hier arbeitet die Autorin mit einem sozioökonomisch informierten Begriff des kollektiven Interesses und der sozialen Gruppe, der auch für die rechtspolitischen Diskussionen über kollektiven Schadensersatz nutzbar gemacht wird. Rechtsdogmatisch orientiert sich das Buch am Begriff des subjektiven Rechts als Gegenstand des Prozesses der Rechtsprechung. Eva Kocher zeigt einerseits, wie der englische Human Rights Act 1998 die gerichtlichen Aufgaben des subjektiven Rechtsschutz auch im Privatrecht belebt hat, und wie sich andererseits die deutsche Verbandsklage über die Anspruchskonstruktion in Verbindung mit dem Begriff des kollektiven Interesses überzeugend als genuin privatrechtliches Instrument konstruieren lässt.