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THE WRESTLER AND HIS WORLD: Precarious Workers, Post‐Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 485-506, November 2024.
ABSTRACT In this article, I explore attempts to organize a precarious workforce in a setting that is always‐already post‐truth: professional wrestling. I focus in particular on a nascent, bottom‐up unionization effort in the UK that foregrounds the rights of wrestlers who perform for low wages, in unsafe environments, and in the absence of both the ...
GREGORY HOLLIN
wiley   +1 more source

Blinded by “algo economicus”: Reflecting on the assumptions of algorithmic management research to move forward

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 413-426, May/June 2024.
Abstract This paper reflects on the paradigmatic assumptions and ideologies that have shaped algorithmic management research. We identify two sets of assumptions: one about the “ontology of algorithms” (which holds that human resource management [HRM] algorithms are non‐human entities with material agency) and one about the “ontology of management ...
Laura Lamers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Work in the digital economy: perspectives on an unprecedented subordination?

open access: yesLabour & Law Issues, 2018
Reading the uberization of work configures the most emblematic example to analyze all the legal considerations about on demand work’s phenomenology. The digital work archetype, through the Uber’s platform, stood out thanks to an innovative planning of ...
Alessia Consiglio
doaj   +1 more source

Creation of the algorithmic management questionnaire: A six‐phase scale development process

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 25-44, January/February 2024.
Abstract There is an increasing body of research on algorithmic management (AM), but the field lacks measurement tools to capture workers' experiences of this phenomenon. Based on existing literature, we developed and validated the algorithmic management questionnaire (AMQ) to measure the perceptions of workers regarding their level of exposure to AM ...
Xavier Parent‐Rocheleau   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uber

open access: yes, 2016
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Hoffman, Alan, Gold, Natalia
openaire   +3 more sources

Ubérisation et altermétropolisation : trajectoires comparées d’Airbnb à Marseille, Lisbonne et Barcelone

open access: yesBulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français
In this article we analyze the relationships between the two particular urbanization mechanisms that are uberization and altermetropolization, focusing more particularly on the set-up and evolution of the Airbnb platform in the cities of Marseilles ...
Alexandre Grondeau, Gwénaëlle Dourthe
doaj   +1 more source

Entre évitement et subversion, quelles possibilités de résistance pour les correcteurs (in)dépendants de la plateforme?

open access: yesTic & Société
At the intersection of the fields of platform capitalism, economic subcontracting, the uberization of self-employment, and the neoliberal exploitation of language resources, some outsourced linguistic activities, such as academic editing by freelancers ...
Caroline PANIS
doaj   +1 more source

The reorganization of app-based delivery workers' job: new-old forms of control in Arapiraca, Brazil

open access: yesProspectiva
With the rise of digital platform work, there is a challenge to understand the work process of app delivery workers. Given this, this research aims to analyze the reorganization of labor among delivery workers in Arapiraca, Brazil. This is a qualitative
Diego Souza
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Logistics: Introduction of the «Physical Internet» / Цифровая логистика: внедрение «физического интернета»

open access: yesBeneficium, 2019
The article is devoted to the consideration of the digital development of logistics. It gives an idea of the «physical Internet» and its implementation in the field of logistics; about the impact of this concept on the market and its structure.
Yuliya V. Lazich / Юлия В. Лазич   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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