The rise of the platform economy has had enormous influence on the world of work in the recent decade. Despite its often relatively small size in the overall labour market, its paradigms have served as inspiration or laboratories of experimentation for the transformation of workplaces and management in various industries. It is therefore important to describe and contextualize the logics of platform labour, and the ways workers deal with these circumstances. To provide a thorough account of this phenomenon, it is essential to interrogate both the technological and political features that permit it.
Platform labour: Contingent histories and new technologies
by Valentin Niebler (Leuphana University of Lüneburg), Moritz Altenried (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) and Jude Macannuco(Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822638.