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Varieties and similarities of platform capitalisms: a comparative approach of labor regulation in Brazil, Portugal and Spain [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
Digital platforms have led to the emergence of a new digital proletariat worldwide, subject to institutional arrangements that put the labor framework outside of labor law.
José Soeiro   +2 more
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Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia [PDF]

open access: yesMedia, Culture and Society, 2022
Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis   +1 more
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The Platform Conjuncture

open access: yesSociologica, 2021
The paper engages the problematic of platform capitalism in the company of Fernand Braudel. Platform capitalism is accordingly located in the opaque zone of the so-called antimarket, “where the great predators roam,” with its characteristic conditions of
Jamie Peck, Rachel Phillips
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Industrial platform capitalism: Outsourcings, syntheses and resistances

open access: yesWork Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2023
Countering the theses of ‘post-industrial society’, in this article we develop the argument that platform capitalism synthesises the radicalisation and the spread of the logic of industrial production.
Henrique Amorim   +2 more
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At a crossroads: Uber and the ambiguities of the COVID-19 emergency in Lisbon

open access: yesWork Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2021
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the surface some problems and trends within digital platforms, including working conditions, while simultaneously transforming the relationship between platform capitalism and ...
Giovanni Allegretti   +2 more
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Left Populism and Platform Capitalism

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2020
This paper contextualizes and analyses the policy proposals of new “left populisms” (Mouffe 2018) for the regulation and reform of the “platform capitalism” (Srnicek 2017) that increasingly organizes digital communication.
Nick Dyer-Witheford
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Labour Struggles in Digital Capitalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Worker Organisation, Mobilisation, and Activism in Germany

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2022
In this article, we investigate labour struggles under the condition of digital capitalism. The main research question we address is: How do German unions evaluate and respond to the rapidly accelerating digitalisation of economy and work?
Holger Pötzsch, Kerem Schamberger
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Airbnb, Platform Capitalism and the Globalised Home

open access: yesCritical Housing Analysis, 2021
Airbnb, the most ubiquitous of the many online short-term rental platforms offering residential homes to tourists, has infiltrated local neighbourhoods and housing markets throughout the world.
Nicole Gurran, Pranita Shrestha
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Digital ecosystem: The journey of a metaphor

open access: yesDigital Geography and Society, 2023
The term “digital ecosystem” has become ubiquitous through a seemingly endless stream of scholarship, punditry and hyperbole around digitalization, to the point that the metaphor is becoming dead. Considering “ecosystem” as a traveling concept straddling
Maroš Krivý
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