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

Frontiers 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, Kenzo Soares Seto, Víctor Riesgo Gómez   +2 more
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Is Platform Capitalism Socially Sustainable?

Sustainability
This theoretical essay aims to analyze some of the socio-economic innovations introduced by Platform Capitalism Specifically, it focuses on two main aspects: first, the digital platform as a radical organizational innovation.
Andrea Fumagalli
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Errand Runners of Digital Platform Capitalism: The Errand Economy as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Gig Economy

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
This article describes a new concept called the errand economy. It examines the dark side of the platform economy and the gig economy and makes a valuable contribution to the field.
İsa Demir
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Secretive organisations: anarchism after platform capitalism

Inscriptions, 2019
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter's Organization After Social Media interrogate what our relation to the Internet in general, social media platforms, and organised networks in particular should be after botched Twitter revolutions, NSA counter-insurgencies ...
Torgeir Fjeld
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Conceptualizing variety in platform capitalism: the dynamics of variegated capitalism in Thai digital marketplace platforms

Globalizations
Digital platforms are expanding globally with significant implications for how economies operate. We argue that the literature has tended to over-emphasize the globalized and homogeneous impacts of platforms with less analysis of variable patterns across
Christopher Foster
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The Platform Conjuncture

Sociologica, 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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Trajectories in platform capitalism [PDF]

Mobilities, 2021
Platforms are digital ecosystems that bring together various actors to form multi-sided markets. This bringing together entails an organisation of trajectories that in turn organise those moved by them into experiential and existential orders. This article sets out a general account of trajectories under these conditions, first identifying three kinds ...
openaire   +1 more source

At a crossroads: Uber and the ambiguities of the COVID-19 emergency in Lisbon

Work 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, Sheila Holz, Nuno Rodrigues   +2 more
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Labour Struggles in Digital Capitalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Worker Organisation, Mobilisation, and Activism in Germany

tripleC: 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

Critical 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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