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Fragmented solidarity: self-employed platform workers and employees in the hospitality sector

Anja Eleveld & Erik Wesselius

Transfer: European review of labour and research2026https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589251413782article
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Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in the Netherlands, this article examines how solidarity is shaped in the hospitality sector, in which solo self-employed platform workers and employees work side by side. Our findings show that divergent identities and interests, reinforced by legal frameworks, may undermine solidarity both among self-employed platform workers and between them and regular employees, while also weakening trade union efforts to construct a shared identity along the traditional labour-capital divide. Competition further fragments platform workers and sharpens boundaries with employed staff in their daily interactions. This creates a central challenge for union strategies. Although unions in the Netherlands and elsewhere have successfully pursued lawsuits to have self-employed platform workers reclassified as employees, our study suggests that their organising strategies will fail to engage those who deliberately choose self-employment, without parallel legal reforms.

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@article{anja2026,
  title        = {{Fragmented solidarity: self-employed platform workers and employees in the hospitality sector}},
  author       = {Anja Eleveld & Erik Wesselius},
  journal      = {Transfer: European review of labour and research},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589251413782},
}

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F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
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