Platform Labour and Global Logistics : A Research Companion

ISBN : 9781032398716

Author : Immanuel Ness

Publisher : Routledge

Year : 2023

Language : English

Type : Book

Description : List of Contributors Introduction Immanuel Ness Part I. Global Logistics and Platform Labour The E-Logistics Revolution: Amazon, Labour, and the Future of Logistics Work Jake Alimahomed-Wilson Lords of the Platform: Rentier Capitalism and the Platform Economy Jathan Sadowski Digitalization, Automation and the Future of Globalization Samuel T. King Global Supply Chains in the Gig Economy Dieter Bögenhold & Farah Naz Part II. Labour Restructuring and Platform Work Thriving Small-scale Entrepreneurs or Precarious Own-account Workers? Concepts and Politics of Informal Work since the 1970s Sibylle Marti A Trade Between Flexibility and Security: Examining the Evolution of Non-Standard Work Arrangements and Ways to Rebalance the Position of Platform Workers in the Labour Exchange Aleksandra Webb Adjunct and Precarious Teaching Labour in Higher Education Eva-Maria Swidler New Forms of Agency or Atomization? Platform Workers’ Power Resources and Fragmentation Heiner Heiland (Technical University Darmstadt) 　 Part III. Global Case Studies of Platform and Informal Labour Transportation Workers Mobilization against the Platform Economy: Korea Aelim Yun `Cheap, fast and flexible. Processes of informalization in Asian garment manufacturing Anna Salmivaara Digital Labour Platforms and the Uberization of Work in Portugal Isabel Roque Piece wages in US and Canadian Agriculture as Political Technologies of Labour Control: Implications for the Wider Platform Economy Emily Reid-Musson & Hannah Johnston Delivering (In)justice: Contestations within India’s digital food delivery platforms. Shyam Krishna India’s Platform Economy Experience: A Site for the Commodification-Decommodification Dynamic Premilla D’Cruz & Ernesto Noronha Entrepreneurship, Informality and the Platform Economy: the Resignification of precariousness in Brazil Jacob Carlos Lima Part IV. Migration, and Platform Work Contactless delivery: Migrant experiences in the platform economy Tyler Riordan, Richard Robinson, Gerhard Hofstaedter With this Ring, with this Striving:　 Love, Marriage, and Labor in the Platform Economy in Southeast Asia Teresita C. del Rosario & Linda A. Lumayag Fragmented Labour, Punctuated Temporalities: Spatio-temporal Precarisation among Student Migrant Workers

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