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Beyond the algorithm: Cooperative alternatives to platform capitalism in urban delivery workforces
Digital Geography and SocietyDigital labour platforms have transformed urban delivery by expanding precarious labour regimes grounded in algorithmic management, outsourcing, and deregulation.
Nuria Soto Aliaga +2 more
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Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation: Expanding the international debate
International Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 2025.Abstract In a world experiencing profound environmental, technological, and demographic shifts, welfare systems are being fundamentally reshaped, highlighting social innovation (SI) as crucial for addressing emerging societal challenges. This research examines the distinctive Latin American approach to SI, exploring its role in transforming regional ...
Maurizio Busacca, Mario Coscarello
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The Blown Head Gasket Effect: Rise and struggles of The Drivers Cooperative in New York City
Internet Policy ReviewThis paper presents an in-depth case study of The Drivers Cooperative (TDC), a driver-owned ride-hailing platform based in New York City, to examine the challenges faced by multistakeholder platform cooperatives. Drawing on 16 semi-structured interviews,
Stefano Tortorici
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Co‐constructing cooperative value ecosystems: A critical realist perspective
Information Systems Journal, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 504-544, March 2025.Abstract This study focuses on digital platform cooperatives (DPCs) and investigates how social value is created within platform cooperativism for fostering a more equitable and inclusive digital landscape. We explore and theorise the outcomes of social value creation by DPCs and identify the generative mechanisms that drive their emergence. We do this
Jun Zhang +3 more
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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.
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Cooperativism and Human-Computer Interaction
, 2019 If social, economic and environmental sustainability are linked, then support for the increasing number of non-profit groups and member-owned organizations offering what Trebor Scholz has called "platform cooperativism" [17] has never been more important.
Cheshire, Coye +5 more
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Cooperativism in Cultural and Tech Sectors: Promises and Challenges [PDF]
, 2022 This article reports on a survey of co-operatives in the cultural and technology sectors in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Creative industries are a growth area for new cooperativism, with more than a quarter of surveyed co-operatives
Dreyer, Bianca C. +3 more
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Chained to the App: German Bike Couriers Riding into Digital Capitalism
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & CritiqueIn the digital age of platformization and digital capitalism, this study demonstrates the significant role of institutionalized relationships in influencing autonomy-control dynamics within platform companies.
Jasmin Schreyer
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, 2016 Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive. Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process.
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Endonormative stabilization in Philippine English lexis
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 555-570, December 2024.Abstract In the past 10 years, we have seen an enormous increase in the interest in Philippine English (PhilE) vocabulary. This is especially documented by the new entries of distinctive PhilE words in the Oxford English dictionary. Thanks to the rise of electronic mega‐corpora, such as GloWbE and the NOW Corpus, it has become possible to discover even
Thomas Biermeier
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