
How Gig Capitalism Came to Thrive in Nordic Labor Markets
Platform companies haven’t overthrown Nordic labor institutions. But they have navigated around them, growing by exploiting the Nordic model’s uneven and conditional protections.
Sigurd M. Nordli Oppegaard is a sociologist and researcher at the Fafo Research Foundation in Norway. He studies questions related to work, wages, working conditions, and labor market dynamics — in particular those related to new technologies and the Norwegian labor market model.

Platform companies haven’t overthrown Nordic labor institutions. But they have navigated around them, growing by exploiting the Nordic model’s uneven and conditional protections.