Replication data for Asymmetric By Design

Semi-structured interviews with Gig Workers in the USA were conducted remotely over a three-year period (2020-2022). Participants were recruited through in-person and online, and worked for a variety of task-based, delivery, and ride-hail companies that organize labor through a digital platform. Interview participants were recruited through a survey posted to Craigslist, Facebook groups, and Reddit forums for gig workers by platform. The research team acquired permission from forum moderators prior to posting. Survey respondents were contacted by email or text message to schedule an interview and were sent an informed consent document. The consent document included contact information for the PI and the University of Washington Institutional Review Board. Consent and permission to record were established verbally at the start of each interview. In the second phase of data collection, participants from the 2020 interviews and participants from focus groups conducted by the research team in 2019 were re-recruited over email for follow-up interviews. Eligible participants had worked on an app or platform within the last year, and were over the age of 18. Anonymized data include transcripts of interviews, data analysis protocols, and the questionnaire used to guide interviews. Complete study data available upon request (this repository only includes a sample of participant interviews). Note that you must be a registered and credentialed user of Dataverse to access this data.