worker
Let an agent explain the concept of a worker across law, economics and society, describe rights and protections in general terms, support questions about work and labour, and separate other senses.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the concept of a worker across law, economics and society, describe rights and protections in general terms, support questions about work and labour, and separate other senses.
A person who performs work, whether employed, self-employed, casual or unpaid, in any occupation, understood in economics and sociology as a member of the labour force and in law as a person with employment rights; the worker as a role is distinct from the individual person and applies across manual, service, professional and creative work.
What it is for: People in their working roles.
It can be explain worker status and categories; describe rights and protections in general terms; present labour statistics with sources; separate other senses such as worker insects.
Distinguishing features
Work role
Legal status categories
Economic participant
Rights-bearing
What it looks like
Not physical; a role performed by a person.
How it is recognised
Person performing work
Employed, self-employed or unpaid
An employer engages workers
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - the relationship
is related to - collective representation
is related to - legal framework
In practice
Families and kinds
employees
self-employed and freelance workers
casual, gig and platform workers
unpaid and domestic workers
migrant workers
Standards and regulation
International labour standards
National labour and employment law
Occupational safety and health rules
Failure modes and hazards
Misclassification of worker status
Exploitation and unsafe work
Agents giving legal advice on individual employment disputes
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.worker-animal
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Status Worker categories.
Legal status.
Categories
Kinds of worker.
Categories
Categories.
- What worker categories exist in this jurisdiction, such as employee, worker and self-employed, and how do rights differ? provenance
- How is status determined? provenance
Senses
Other senses.
Senses
Other senses.
- Is a worker bee, a worker process in computing or a person meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Rights Rights and protections.
General information.
Protections
Legal protections.
Protections
Protections.
- Which rights to pay, hours, leave, safety and non-discrimination do workers have here, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user seeking advice on their own dispute, which needs a lawyer or union? boundary
Help
Getting help.
Help
Help.
- Which bodies, unions and services help workers with problems? provenance
- Is someone in unsafe work now? boundary
Economy Workers in the economy.
Data.
Statistics
Labour statistics.
Statistics
Statistics.
- What are the labour force, employment and wage figures here, according to official statistics? provenance
- How are workers classified statistically? provenance
Trends
Changing work.
Trends
Trends.
- How are platform work, automation and remote work changing worker roles, according to research? provenance
- Which policy responses exist? provenance
History Labour history.
Context.
Movements
Labour movements.
Movements
Movements.
- How did labour movements shape worker rights, according to historians? provenance
- Which milestones matter here? provenance
Culture
Workers in culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How are workers represented in art, literature and commemorations such as Labour Day? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific occupation? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should worker categories be separate entries?
- How should labour law be localised?
- How should statistics be linked?