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Let’s start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers

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Let’s start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. / Bates, Oliver; Lord, Carolynne; Alter, Hayley et al.
ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability. New York: ACM, 2020. p. 227–235.

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Bates, O, Lord, C, Alter, H & Kirman, B 2020, Let’s start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. in ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability. ACM, New York, pp. 227–235. https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401364

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Bates, O., Lord, C., Alter, H., & Kirman, B. (2020). Let’s start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. In ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (pp. 227–235). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401364

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Bates O, Lord C, Alter H, Kirman B. Let’s start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. In ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability. New York: ACM. 2020. p. 227–235 doi: 10.1145/3401335.3401364

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Bates, Oliver ; Lord, Carolynne ; Alter, Hayley et al. / Let’s start talking the walk : Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability. New York : ACM, 2020. pp. 227–235

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