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Data, 2021 In recent years, the platform economy has been recognised by researchers and governments around the world for its potential to contribute to the sustainable development of society.
Mayo Fuster Morell +2 more
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Platform Cooperativism in Italy and in Europe
CIRIEC Working papers, 2019 This research investigates some cases of cooperative platforms in the field of workerowned cooperation and consumer cooperation and explores the effects of the merger of platform technology with cooperation. The research focuses on the main consequences of this merger on the organizational model and the engagement level of individuals and studies the ...
Martinelli, Francesca +4 more
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Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and Co-optation [PDF]
Critical Sociology, 2019 Platform cooperativism proposes to create an alternative to the corporate sharing economy based on a model of democratically owned and governed co-operatives. The idea sounds simple and convincing: cut out the corporate middleman and replace Uber with a service owned and managed by taxi drivers themselves, create a version of Airbnb run by cities, or ...
Sandoval, M.
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Contextualizing Platform Labor
Revista Contracampo, 2020 Digital labor studies emerge in communication research in the early 2010s. Since then, the exponential increase in work and consumption on transportation and delivery platforms has led academics, activists and civil society to discuss phenomena called ...
Rafael Grohmann, Jack Qiu
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Gigs of their own: reinventing worker cooperativism in the platform economy and its implications for collective action [PDF]
, 2021 Based on the significant collective action problems that gig workers face, sociologists would generally expect that these workers take a mostly individualistic approach to improving their position. Nonetheless, various forms of collective action by gig workers can be observed in practice.
Meijerink, Jeroen +3 more
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, 2021 Le développement fulgurant des plateformes numériques au début de la décennie 2010 laissait espérer l’émergence d’une économie plus émancipatrice et démocratique. Pourtant, loin des idéaux de l’économie collaborative, de nombreuses voix ont rapidement dénoncé la domination écrasante de l’économie de plateformes par une poignée d’entreprises ...
Compain, Guillaume
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Commoning in the Digital Era: Platform Cooperativism as a Counter to Cognitive Capitalism
Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2018 With the widespread adoption of ICT technologies, platforms, social media and sharing economy businesses have emerged as models of economic organization. This paper examines their functioning on a micro level to provide a thorough critique. The theory of
Zygmuntowski, Jan J.
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Social Sciences, 2023 It is often argued that digital labour platforms entail an expansion of opportunities for women for several reasons. They facilitate the balance between paid work and household chores as a result of time flexibility, they eliminate entry and permanence ...
Denise Kasparian +3 more
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PLUS.WP5 Platform Cooperativism Conceptualization
, 2022 Language of the dataset: English, Catalan Abstract: This dataset frames the role of cooperatives as a potential alternative business model for the platform economy.
Espelt, Ricard +2 more
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Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 1919-1942, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Can we remake local economies from scratch – not through political struggle but by design – to solve wicked problems and transform urban governance? Such questions are raised by an emergent trend within urban experimentation that emphasises participation and commoning in designing peer‐to‐peer provisioning systems through a platform logic ...
Matthew Thompson, Colin Lorne
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