... sector, highlighting the adoption of local norms and traditions. For decades, thousands of casas particulares have hosted exchanges between visitors and the local population. Based on ethnographic data collected in Havana, we contend that the “Airbnb model” was present before the gig economy giant...

...-focused venture capital firms on the other. The South Atlantic Quarterly 119:2, April 2020 doi 10.1215/00382876-8177959 © 2020 Duke University Press Wolfson Introduction: Class Struggle before Class 395 The Shape of the Struggle The growing struggle within the gig economy is taking place on two inter...

... trapped by an algorithm (Rosenblat and Stark 2016). When I first started working for Uber, I had never heard the term gig economy. Uber claimed that I am self-employed and that drivers contract directly with customers to provide a service. I do not agree with this. I under- stood Uber as a company...

...: Impacts of Global Digital Labour Platforms and the Gig Economy on Worker Livelihoods .” Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 23 , no. 2 : 135 – 62 . Holder Sarah . 2019 . “ For Ride-Hailing Drivers, Data Is Power .” CityLab Online , August 22 . https://www.citylab.com...

... in the transformation of investment into profit” (Zuboff 2018 : 53). While Zuboff ( 2018 ) emphasizes the crucial role advertising platforms Google and Facebook have played in instantiating this logic within the broader political economy, gig economy platforms, such as Uber and Lyft, have extended it into the service...

... . www.wired.com/2017/02/pressure-prove-ads-actually-work-google-opens/ . Aloisi Antonio . 2016 . “ Commoditized Workers: Case Study Research on Labor Law Issues Arising from a Set of ‘On-Demand/Gig Economy’ Platforms .” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 37 , no. 3 : 653 – 90 . Berg...

...: Subjectivities and Resistance . London : Routledge . Barzilay Renan Ben-David Arianne . 2017 . “ Platform Inequality: Gender in the Gig Economy .” Seton Hall Law Review 393 : 1 – 25 . Berg Janine . 2016 . “ Income Security in the On-Demand Economy: Findings and Policy Lessons from...

... Extraction on AdultWork AdultWork s model reflects other platforms operating in the official econ- omy: sex workers are deemed to be independent workers, and fixed costs such as premises are shifted onto individual workers (Forde et al. 2017; Wood et al. 2019). In contrast to other gig economy platforms...

... in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (2019), Marx at the Arcade (2019), and Working the Phones (2017). His research is inspired by the workers inquiry. His research focuses on labor, work, the gig economy, platforms, resistance, organizing, and video games. He is on the editorial board of Notes...

..., Governance. She has been the editor for books and spe- cial issues of journals. Jamie Woodcock is a senior lecturer at the Open University and a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (2019), Marx at the Arcade (2019), and Working the Phones (2017). His research is inspired...

... new hidden practices, typifying a continuous power struggle in Lagos. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 ride-hailing apps platform economy everyday resistance algorithmic management References Anwar M. A. Graham M. . 2019 . “ Hidden Transcripts of the Gig...

... into how con- temporary capital, technology, and labor are structured in this late neoliberal moment. This part is a brief commentary on why we must move away from treating neoliberalism as unchanging and monolithic. Next, I point to the rapidity with which workers in the gig economy, such as Uber drivers...

... of a management model based on the data- fication and taskification of a form of digital labor (Casilli 2019). This phenomenon has been identified particularly in the ride-hailing and food delivery gig economies (Rosenblat and Stark 2016; Rosenblat 2018; Griesbach et al. 2019; Van Doorn and Yujie Chen...

... University San Marcos. He is coeditor of The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence (2021). Stuart Davis is assistant professor of communication studies at the City University of New York, Baruch College, where he is also the chapter chair of the PSC-CUNY, CUNY's faculty and staff...

... and municipal councils Protection and legalisation of all plateform [sic] non EU migrant workers (who may not have resident permits) Act to express solidarity with other precarious and gig economy workers Respect Common space for riders Abolish internal ranking These demands contained two key themes...

... and in South America. In Europe, gig work is historically something new, but in Brazil as in other countries of the so-called global South the gig economy was common even before digital platforms arose (Grohmann and Qiu 2020). Courier services and other such activities existed before platform labor, meaning...

... precarious work gig economy labor law References Chen Yea-Hung Glymour Maria Riley Alicia Balmes John Duchowny Kate Harrison Robert Matthay Ellicott Bibbins-Domingo Kirsten . 2021 . “ Excess Mortality Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic among Californians 18–65...

... Economy. Information, Communication and Society 20, no. 6: 898 914. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1294194. Van Doorn, N., and Adam Badger. 2020. Platform Capitalism s Hidden Abode: Producing Data Assets in the Gig Economy. Antipode 52, no. 5: 1475 95. doi.org/10.1111/anti.12641. Woodcock, J. 2019. Marx...

... New Gig Economy Law Is Strengthening a Stripper-Led Labor Movement. Intercept, January 24. theintercept.com/2020/01/24/california-la- bor-law-independent-contractors-strippers/. Filar, Ray. 2020. What Kind of Work Is Prostitution? Invert Journal, no. 1. theintercept.com /2020/01/24/california-labor...

... democracies have been devastated, how the gig economy replaced stable employment, how fee for use was accepted in place of public resources and amenities, why the founding structure of the European Union was undemocratic at its core, why every entity and enterprise is now more concerned with ratings than...