This data set will include three sources of data:

1) Data that records both the web collection of 60 platform economy cases around Europe and the results of 20 interviews to platform managers and co-op workers around Europe about their organisations business models based on Multidisciplinary Balance of Platform Economy framework. The selected platforms are related to four working areas: networked hospitality, taxi services, urban food delivery and domestic services. Data is presented in two files: 01_PLATFORM_ECONOMY_CODEBOOK.ods which includes the total amount of indicators, answer options, data source used and 02_PLATFORM_ECONOMY_BBDD_ANALYSIS.ods which includes the results for each indicator are presented in anonymised way.

2) Data that frames the role of cooperatives as a potential alternative business model for the platform economy. It contains 11 semi-structured interviews to stakeholders engaged with platform cooperatives (Katuma, Smart and Fairbnb) about limits and strengths of economic performance in terms of growth, working conditions and redistribution of gains. The data is presented in three files: 03_Semi-structured interview script.txt which includes the script used by the semi-structured interviews, 04_Profiles_interviewed.rtf which contains the type of profiles interviewed and, 05_Interviews_transcriptions.txt which includes 11 out of the 12 semi-structured interviews to Katuma, Smart and Fairbnb stakeholders since one participant declined to be recorded.

3) Data from the testing of the PLUS project “Charter of Digital Work Rights” presented in the deliverable “D5.1 Charter of Digital Worker Rights”. The Charter was tested by the involved cooperatives (Katuma, Smart and FairBnb). The data is presented in four files: 06_Surveys_script.odt which includes the questionnaire, 07_survey_results_Katuma_Catalan.cvs, 08_survey_results_Fairbnb_English.cvs and 09_survey_results_Smart_French.cvs which contains the results of the surveys.

This dataset has been the base for the testing of “Charter on Digital Worker Rights” performed in the frame of PLUS project (supported by European Union Horizon 2020 Programme under the grant agreement number 822638) through a survey, unstructured and co-creation sessions with the three project pilots: Katuma, Smart and Fairbnb.

Geographical location/s of data collection:

London, United Kingdom Barcelona, Spain Paris, France