The work is articulated as “casual, unpredictable, irregular, contingent, and temporary, with the possibility of increased work intensification”. Gig work is also referred to as platform working, given the use of technology and algorithms to allocate services. In 2020, Dr Karen Gregory of the University of Edinburgh published ‘My life is more valuable than this: Understanding risk among on-demand food couriers in Edinburgh’. This research brought together current social studies of platform labour together with long-standing sociology of risk. And it really brought the subject to life, giving voice to gig economy/platform workers themselves. These voices articulated the risks associated with the work, including bodily risk and physical harm, financial, mobility and that of uncertainty.