Search Results for platform labor

...Fabien Brugière Drawing from a transurban field research conducted in the ride-hailing sector in Paris and Brussels regions, this article investigates platformization as a productive model defined by the articulation of an outsourced labor regime with an algorithmic and data-driven type...

...Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco Across the globe, algorithmic technologies have undeniably altered the way labor relations are governed. The purpose of this article is to investigate a particular manifestation of that phenomenon: how, in Brazil, platform capitalism consists in a hybrid...

... to direct appropriation. This article explores how labor responds to such devices of control and appropriation by digital platforms. Using the typological approach, the study argues that labor resistance emerges as a direct response to the management strategies of platforms in the form of granular...

...Carlotta Benvegnù; Nelli Kampouri Outside of the literature focusing on the platformization of specific “informal” feminized and racialized sectors, especially care and domestic work, in which reproductive labor has been traditionally carried out, there is a dearth of research on platforms from...

...Rafael Grohmann The aim of this article is to analyze the emergence of worker-owned platforms—whether cooperatives or collectives—as a laboratory of platform labor, considering the circulation of workers’ struggles. The research involves six cases in three different countries (Spain, France, Brazil...

...Daniel Arubayi Ride-hailing platforms such as Uber, an integral component in the global platform economy, are not only facilitating fluidity and so-called autonomy of labor; they are also creating an unfair working environment for workers. This phenomenon indicates the strength of a highly temporal...

... services, driving down standards and prices, and normalizing risky behaviors. The article posits that these changes in the sex industry are symptomatic and reflective of wider shifts in labor-capital relations and technology and therefore argues that bringing research on platform work and sex work...

... at the Univer- sité Sorbonne Paris Nord and is currently conducting research on Platform Work in Paris as part of the Horizon2020 project PLUS: Platform Labour in Urban Spaces. Her publications in French, English, and Italian include jour- nal articles and books on labor movements, migrations, digitalization...

... similar groups of self-organized app-based workers show how platform organizing can empower workers under surveillance capitalism who fall outside of the standard labor relationship. By centering their own struggles and personal relationships as central to their political fights, rather than the digital...

.... . 2019 . “ Digital Utility: Datafication, Regulation, Labor, and DiDi’s Platformization of Urban Transport in China .” Chinese Journal of Communication 12 , no. 3 : 274 – 89 . Cai C. , 2015 . “ A Letter to Readers of South China Morning Post .” Yicai.com , December 11...

... Pulled Ahead of GrubHub, Uber Eats in the On-Demand Food Delivery Race .” Fortune , March 11 . https://fortune.com/2019/03/11/doordash-tops-grubhub-on-demand-food/ . Bosma Jelke Mos Eva Doorn Niels van . 2020 . “ Disrupting ‘Business as Usual’: COVID-19 and platform labour...

... ever-evolving labor movement. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 China logistics workers platform economy References Alimahomed-Wilson Jake Ness Immanuel , eds. 2018 . Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global...

... its scope. In this too, the pandemic con- text is contributing to a new wave of commodification of social reproduction by means of digital technologies: many care services previously more or less structured along the lines of a gendered division of labor are increas- ingly incorporated in platforms...

...Biju Mathew Based on extensive conversations with Uber, Lyft, and Ola drivers across multiple cities in the United States and India, this article argues that gig/platform work operates through a reorganization of established labor process with data at the center of such changes. Not only is data...

... Arising from a Set of ‘On-Demand/Gig Economy’ Platforms .” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 37 , no. 3 : 653 – 90 . Berg Janine Johnston Hannah . 2018 . “ Too Good to Be True? A Comment on Hall and Krueger’s Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber’s Driver-Partners .” ILR Review...

... as a separate organization from the market, which allows a reduction of transaction costs by integrating labor. In fact, by increasingly automating the relationship between client and user, the platform can almost completely eliminate those costs, fully externalizing labor to integrate the market. This kind...

... 2020 Duke University Press 2020 food delivery urban logistics platform capitalism transnational struggles labor References Anon . 2016 . “ Rebel Roo 1 .” Notes from Below , November . notesfrombelow.org/article/rebel-roo-1 . Anon . 2017 . “ Rebel Roo 3...

... and Silicon Valley takes on a different hue. To elaborate, using a historical lens, we can begin to make out the ways that the economic, political, and ideological logic of platform capitalism (Srnicek 2017) is a radical extension of the neoliberal logics of flexibilization, the casualization of labor...

... (opposition to “private ownership and control of finance, the means of production and communications by a minority, and the commodification and sale of labour power by the majority”) Socialism (supporting the “full and mutual development of all our potential capacities” against “all forms of oppression...

... Futures: Reflections from Puerto Rico .” Undisciplined Environments , June 22 . https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2021/06/22/colonial-climates-decolonial-futures-reflections-from-puerto-rico/ . García-López Gustavo A. 2021b . “ Commoning Labour, Labouring the Commons: Centring...