Kristin Jesnes is a researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Norway. Her main areas of expertise are non-standard forms of work (including platform work) and industrial relations.
She defended her PhD with the title “Power relations in app-based food delivery in Norway" in February 2025 from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her research on platform work has been published in the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, A Modern Guide to Labour and the Platform Economy (Edward Elgar), The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work and New Technology, Work and Employment.
Since 2022, Jesnes has been a member of the Steering Committee of IWPLMS (The International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation).
Education
PhD. from Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
Master in International Security, Institute d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). PhD student at the University of Gothenburg.
Area of work
Publications
Fafo's Publications
Scientific publishing
Research communication
Randsonen av arbeidslivet – hva skal til for å få ordna forhold?
Nye funn om budbransjen: – Stor nød og desperasjon
Når er det nok utnytting?
Wolt-dom gir viktig avklaring om «app-arbeid»
– Sykkelbudene trenger en bransjeavtale
Bak Black Week: Hvem leverer pakken din, og hvilke arbeidsforhold jobber de under?
Formidlingsøkonomi, ikke delingsøkonomi
Tar appene livet av bedriftene?
Farlig folketelling
Wahhabiyya paranoia in Bamako and the new intolerance of the tolerant
Fafo's Publications
Scientific publishing
Ekstern formidling
Dato | Kategori | Tittel | Fafo-side |
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05 September 2025 | Op-eds and commentaries
| Randsonen av arbeidslivet – hva skal til for å få ordna forhold? | FriFagbevegelse | |
29 August 2025 | Interviews
| Nye funn om budbransjen: – Stor nød og desperasjon | NRK.no | |
19 June 2025 | Op-eds and commentaries
| Når er det nok utnytting? | Klassekampen.no | |
05 May 2025 | Op-eds and commentaries
| Wolt-dom gir viktig avklaring om «app-arbeid» | DN.no | |
17 February 2025 | Forskernytt
| – Sykkelbudene trenger en bransjeavtale | FriFagbevegelse | |
22 November 2023 | Op-eds and commentaries
| Bak Black Week: Hvem leverer pakken din, og hvilke arbeidsforhold jobber de under? | Lenke | |
25 September 2017 | Op-eds and commentaries
| Formidlingsøkonomi, ikke delingsøkonomi | |
25 September 2017 | Op-eds and commentaries
| Tar appene livet av bedriftene? | |
02 December 2015 | Op-eds and commentaries
| Farlig folketelling | Lenke | |
20 July 2015 | Op-eds and commentaries
| Wahhabiyya paranoia in Bamako and the new intolerance of the tolerant | Lenke |
Completed projects
The working environment of the future: Risk and working environment challenges in digitalized work arrangements across different forms of employment. A conceptual framework of the Nordic labour inspection authorities
Creative professions and professions within arts and culture are a rapidly growing part of the international labor markets.
In this project, Fafo and Samfunnsøkonomisk analyse (SØA) will identify bottlenecks, possible solutions and opportunities for growth and innovation of the platform economy.
Does LO's youth initiative lead to active members and union representatives?
Major changes in technology, economic contexts, workforces, and the institutions of work have come in ebb and flow since well before the first industrial revolution in the 18th century. Yet, many argue that the changes we are currently facing are different, and that the rise of digitalized production will entirely transform our ways and views of work.
This project aims to identify and analyze players in sharing economy in Norway, and will focus particularly on the services which involves provision of labour.
The aim of this comparative project is to study how temporary employment influences people’s employment careers and their chances of achieving a permanent establishment in the labour market.