Search Results for worker-owned platforms

...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...

... in Puerto Rico, USA .” Political Geography 78 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102181 . Coca Nithin . 2017 . “ Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives .” Grassroots Economic Organizing , October 16 . http://www.geo.coop/story/innovative-funding-models...

... Kingdom s largest plat- form for sex work, owns no brothels and employs no sex workers. The platform, which attracts over 3.8 million visitors per month, was established in the 1990s, predating the emergence of newer platforms such as Uber, Lyft, Mechanical Turk, and Deliveroo. Theorists of digital sex...

... 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...

...—and are increasingly finding broader applications—the article argues that is crucial that research does not lose sight of the role and agency of workers against capital. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 platforms algorithmic management workers gig economy...

... was the worker-owned cooper- ative platforms, in which the computational architecture as well as the asso- ciated investment, administrative, and financial support was owned and operated by the workers collective. For example, the bike delivery platform Coopcycle in France used a custom-made license...

...Todd Wolfson © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 References Cant Callum . 2018 . “ The Wave of Worker Resistance in European Food Platforms 2016–2017 .” Notes from Below , January 29 . notesfrombelow.org/article/european-food-platform-strike-wave . Huws...

... . 2017 . Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy . Cambridge : Polity . Scholz Trebor Schneider Nathan , eds. 2017 . Ours to Hack and to Own. The Rise of Platform Cooperativism: A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet . New York...

...) others also articulated a common class perspective on the political implications of the struggle: Cant and Mogno Platform Workers of the World, Unite! 405 Our generation is deprived of its own future by the imposition of working conditions that, exploiting both the grey areas of the law and our despera...

... contractors, with shippers. The growing monopolistic and exploitative practices of the platform apps have been squeezing truckers incomes and further contributing to workers mobilization. Yun Man Man, which merged with another app, Huo Che Bang, and has been described as China s Uber for trucks, is owned...

... of consideration, this article focusese on the apparatuses for the psychic management of workers deployed by platform capitalism in Brazil. Within this scope, the article develops a double analysis: first, it examines the forms of subjectivity and the libidinal economy of Brazilian peripheral workers...

... the activities of DoorDash and other gig platforms, par- ticularly with respect to how they pay their workers (Lieber 2019) and how much they charge restaurants (Nylen and Nieves 2020). In this light, it makes sense that DoorDash complemented Project DASH with the initia- tion of another partnership-driven...

... a household that reminded her of her mourning and gave her the opportunity to earn extra income to support her children and grandchildren. The affective labor that workers are required to invest in platforms appeared to her far less draining than the emotional labor she had invested for years in her own...

...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...

... limit the SP's tactical uses of these platforms, the SP's agency to use these to try to make history in digital conditions not of its own choosing is significant. This article argues that the SP's tactical use of social media platforms exists between structure and agency, at the interface of top‐down...

... to a more general process of development of a critique of platforms one that brings together workers struggles, social counter-conducts, co-research, new institutionalities we will concen- trate on three nodes: platforms as infrastructures, platforms as battlefields, and a politics of counter-platforms...

... Julie Yujie . 2020 . “ Odds Stacked against Workers: Labor Process Gamification on Chinese and American Food Delivery Platforms .” Platform Labor (blog). admin.platformlabor.net/output/labor-process-gamification-china-us-food-delivery-platforms/Odds%20Stacked%20Against%20Workers_pre-pub.pdf...

...- Irani • The Case of Amazon Mechanical Turk  227 neurs, and innovators. Amazon’s platform untethers these employers from the working “crowd,” keeping workers behind computer screens and lines of code. Employers imagine that Turkers (as they are called colloquially) work by uncoerced choice...

... self-reflexivity and the production of the Self as entrepreneur. Now, “the worker, on his own ini- tiative, is supposed to guarantee the formation, growth, accumulation, improvement, and valorization of the ‘self’ as ‘capital’” (Lazzarato 2012: 91). The conditions for enacting...

... Trebor . 2017 . Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy . Cambridge : Polity . Slee Tom . 2015 . What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy . London : OR Books . Srnicek Nick . 2017 . Platform Capitalism . Cambridge...