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La governance urbana del lavoro di piattaforma. Una ricognizione europea
No full textAccanto ad un processo generale di digitalizzazione del lavoro è emerso un modello di impresa - quello delle piattaforme - che ha portato alla ribalta una tipologia nuova di attore economico. Queste aziende - il cui sviluppo va collocato all’interno di una tendenza più complessiva verso la de-strutturazione dei rapporti di lavoro di tipo subordinato, l’erosione del salario e una razionalità logistica - contribuiscono in maniera determinante oggi alla ridefinizione di quello che concepiamo come lavoro. Questi cambiamenti, ovviamente, non sono analizzabili meramente nei termini di un incremento tecnologico ma tagliano trasversalmente una serie di relazioni - tanto economiche quanto sociali e politiche. Detto altrimenti, l’espansione del capitalismo delle piattaforme non è stata esente, anzi è strutturalmente accompagnata da uno spettro largo di resistenze e conflitti. Lo sviluppo repentino tanto delle piattaforme quanto dei conflitti ha stimolato sempre di più un dibattito pubblico che si è spostato dalla discussione generale sul futuro del lavoro e delle nostre società alla necessità presente di governare questo sviluppo, in primis per quanto riguarda le condizioni del lavoro digitale e digitalizzato. In questo articolo si propone una mappatura a livello europeo delle differenti pratiche di governance urbana del lavoro di piattaforma analizzando limiti e possibilita
Covid-19 Impact on Platform Economy. A Preliminary Outlook
Full text linkWith this report, PLUS consortium wants to contribute to a large debate on the role of platform economy and on how to deal with labour transformations after Covid-19 outbreak. Considering the ongoing very unpredictable situation, the observations contained in the report should be considered as explorative to further investigations. In any case, we would suggest to avoid framing Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 as outstanding event clearly dividing what occurred before from what will occur shortly after. Rather, one of the purposes of this report is to test if some of the hypothesis we produced during the first year and half of the project are still persuasive even after virus appearance. At first sight it seems that Covid-19 pandemic highlights and, if anything, emphasizes very well some platforms characteristics we had already identified: the lack of social protections for platform workers, the becoming essential infrastructures of platforms, the digitalization of services, the changing nature of urban economies
INCA D1 A Theoretical Framework for Platform Capitalism
No full textThe file contains the literature references used for tasks 1.1 Politics-Economy: Historical Trajectories and 1.2 The relation between Economy and Democracy through a Technological Gaz
Covid-19 Impact on Platform Economy. A Preliminary Outlook
Full text linkWith this report, PLUS consortium wants to contribute to a large debate on the role of platform economy and on how to deal with labour transformations after Covid-19 outbreak. Considering the ongoing very unpredictable situation, the observations contained in the report should be considered as explorative to further investigations. In any case, we would suggest to avoid framing Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 as outstanding event clearly dividing what occurred before from what will occur shortly after. Rather, one of the purposes of this report is to test if some of the hypothesis we produced during the first year and half of the project are still persuasive even after virus appearance. At first sight it seems that Covid-19 pandemic highlights and, if anything, emphasizes very well some platforms characteristics we had already identified: the lack of social protections for platform workers, the becoming essential infrastructures of platforms, the digitalization of services, the changing nature of urban economies
Platform Battlefield. Digital Infrastructures in Capitalism 4.0
No full textWith the aim of contributing 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 concentrate on three nodes: platforms as infrastructures, platforms as battlefields, and a politics of counter-platform
Platform, Sharing or Gig? Ambiguities and Ambivalences of the Digitalization of the Economy
Full text linkThe rapid growth of the debate around the crucial transformations that our economy
is having through the development and public diffusion of digital technologies seems
to have a consequence: the confusing multiplications of words and concepts regarding
labour and the following difficulty in formulating univocal definitions. Thus, such
ambiguity often impedes to focus the real extent that the impact of digital technologies
is having on our society. While in its initial stage their potential in reshaping the
organization of services provision has attracted optimist comments from scholars and
commentators, especially after workers started to organize and struggle, a flourishing
critical literature has later emerged.
In this article we want to frame a potential critical point of view on these transformations,
focusing on some specific configurations they assumed: the platform business
model and the so-called gig and sharing economy. We will start by scrutinizing the
concept of platform. At first glance, platform is a business model allowing for the
creation of new market places for the exchange of labour power, resources and assets,
but they are also responsible of reconfiguring working processes and labour relations
towards an algorithm-based exploitation. Secondly, we will move towards sharing
economy and gig economy, which represent emerging sectors that, on the other side,
condense larger socio-economic transformations.
Our aim is to show how these concepts represent a contested terrain between long
term innovations, digital technologies and labour struggles
A variegated platform capitalism? Algorithms, labour process and institutions in Deliveroo in Bologna and Uber in Lisbon
Full text linkThis paper addresses the topic of platformisation of labour by investigating two case studies: Uber in Lisbon and Deliveroo in Bologna. According to the theoretical frameworks of variegated capitalism and supported by the analysis of empirical evidence stemming from the ground, the authors outline the hypothesis of a variegated platformisation, that is, the persistence of (dis)continuities in the operations of digital platforms between different socio-institutional contexts. This means that while, on one hand, the platform business model’s logic of accumulation and value extraction is the same regardless of the contexts, on the other side platforms reveal a strong ability to move in (and between) the specific socio-institutional-political regulatory framework. By following the algorithm, which is adopting a multi-sided ethnographic approach investigating how algorithms change across time, space and sectors, the paper will stress both similarities and differences between platform labour process in Deliveroo in Bologna and Uber in Portugal. Finally, while on one hand the conclusion will focus on how institution (still) matter, crucially influencing the development of platforms, on the other it will be stressed the necessity of a more nuanced approach to understand the uneven development of platform capitalism
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