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A Treatise on the Global Gig Economy: Macroeconomic Dynamics and Future Horizons
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Platform Economy, Gig Worker Classification, Contingent Labour, Digital Taylorism, Portable Benefits, Cloudwork, Dynamic Pricing
Abstract
The contemporary international economy is undergoing a structural transformation characterised by the systematic dissolution of the standard employment relationship and the rapid expansion of the platform-mediated gig economy. This comprehensive treatise investigates the structural foundations, multi-dimensional definitions, emergence catalysts, taxonomical classifications, macroeconomic impacts, systemic vulnerabilities, and regulatory trajectories of platform labour. The investigation begins by synthesising distinct definitions across economic, legal, technological, and sociological disciplines, conceptualising the unbundling of holistic jobs into episodic, algorithmic, and task-based piecework. It further examines structural catalysts grouped across technological infrastructures, macroeconomic disruptions, socio-demographic transitions, regulatory ambiguities, and enterprise agile staffing imperatives that together established the operational framework for scalable platform capitalism. To resolve historical conflations within academic literature, this paper evaluates an empirical taxonomy mapping gig work across two primary axes: geographic dependency (location-based physical work versus virtual online cloudwork) and human capital skill prerequisites. Through this matrix, the treatise analyses the macroeconomic footprint of platform labour, quantifying its direct contributions to national Gross Domestic Product (GDP), labour reserve activation, total factor productivity, and consumer surplus generation across advanced and emerging markets. Conversely, the study addresses the systemic contradictions of the gig economy, specifically highlighting the legal battles surrounding worker misclassification, acute earnings volatility caused by dynamic pricing, the absence of statutory social safety nets, opaque algorithmic management, and the externalisation of capital depreciation and physical risks onto an atomised workforce. Finally, the paper provides a comparative legal analysis of the three diverging regulatory archetypes across the European Union, the United States, and India, evaluating how distinct jurisdictions balance flexible corporate models against fundamental labour protections. The treatise concludes by assessing prospects under advancing artificial intelligence, automated logistics, and emerging worker-owned decentralised cooperative architectures, offering a unified, evidence-based reference framework for global labour market policy.
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R. Durai, S. Ramaswamy, V. Kaveri, M. S. Fathima Begam, & Sruthi Mohan , S.Amutha , S.Arun (October-2026). A Treatise on the Global Gig Economy: Macroeconomic Dynamics and Future Horizons. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 11(10), a277-a294. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2610032.pdf
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