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Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and Co-optation [PDF]

open access: yesCritical Sociology, 2020
Platform cooperativism proposes to create an alternative to the corporate sharing economy based on a model of democratically owned and governed cooperatives.
Marisol Sandoval
exaly   +5 more sources

Re-embedding the economy within digitalized foundational sectors: The case of platform cooperativism

open access: yes, 2020
Criticism of platforms that do not adhere to the democratic principles outlined above has led to the emergence of an alternative proposition, known as “platform cooperativism”: worker-owned cooperatives based on open-source technologies, which respect ...
Davide Arcidiacono, Ivana Pais
exaly   +5 more sources

Platform Capitalism, Platform Cooperativism, and the Commons

Rethinking Marxism, 2021
This essay explores the potential for transitioning from platform capitalism to a commons-oriented postcapitalist ethical economy.
exaly   +2 more sources

Platform Cooperativism:

South Atlantic Quarterly, 2019
This paper focalizes on the economic model of digital platforms as a new method of coordinating the production of value. We suggest that the advent of “platform capitalism” is symptomatic of a crisis of the model of the firm understood as a space separated from society and based on private ownership.
Carlo Vercellone, Francesco Brancaccio
exaly   +2 more sources

Does platform cooperativism represent a future for work? The case of a French cooperative of bike couriers

Organization, 2023
The delivery sector has undergone profound changes in the way work is organised, particularly under the influence of platform capitalism and its algorithmic management. This phenomenon exacerbates processes of work precarisation that have been underway for decades.
Stéphane le Lay, Fabien Lemozy
exaly   +2 more sources

Beyond platform cooperativism

Interactions, 2022
This forum focuses on the conditions and futures of the labor underpinning technology production and maintenance. We welcome standalone articles as well as interviews and conversations about all tech labor within the global supply chain of digital technologies. --- Seyram Avle and Sarah Fox, Editors
openaire   +2 more sources

Platform cooperativism and freedom as non-domination in the gig economy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Theory
While the challenges workers face in the gig economy are now well-known, reflections on emancipatory solutions in political philosophy are still underdeveloped. Some have pleaded for enhancing workers’ bargaining power through unionisation; others for enhancing exit options in the labour market.
Tim Christiaens
exaly   +2 more sources

Disciplined autonomy: A failed platform-cooperativism initiative in Brazil

open access: yesPlatforms & Society
This study seeks to gain an understanding of the power relations in a failed platform-cooperativism initiative in Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil, in 2022. The project was started by a worker cooperative that acquired a Bibi Mob platform franchise and was supported by the city's solidarity-economy incubator.
André Lemos
exaly   +2 more sources

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