Entrepreneurial opportunities and working conditions of self‑employed online freelancers in the platform economy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper examines the experiences of self-employed online freelancers working on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on interviews with freelancers and platform managers and experts in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Their experiences during COVID-19 reveal issues of asymmetric power vis-à-vis...