Capitalism in the Platform Age Emerging Assemblages of Labour and Welfare in Urban Spaces
This open access book provides an overview of urban digital platforms such as Airbnb and Deliveroo, which, along with Amazon, Google, Facebook and other IT companies, constitute by now the infrastructures for other businesses to operate on and for our social life to go on. These platforms serve as s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Springer Studies in Alternative Economics
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Theoretical Foundations
- Chapter 1. Introduction (Sandro Mezzadra)
- Chapter 2. Operations of Platforms. A Global Process in a Multipolar World (Sandro Mezzadra)
- Chapter 3. The process of valorization in the platform capitalism (Andrea Fumagalli)
- Chapter 4. Out of the Standard. Towards a Global Approach to Platform Labour (Maurilio Pirone)
- Chapter 5. What Urban Future: Do High-Tech Metropolises Dream of Electric Sheep? (Niccolò Cuppini)
- Chapter 6. The Politics of Platforms. Exploring Platform’s Infrastructural Role and Power (Mattia Frapporti)
- Chapter 7. Managing the Wheel: Managerial Normativity from the Wage Society to the Platform Age (Massimilano Nicoli)
- Chapter 8. Digital labour, informal unionism and the rise of a new workers subjectivity (Marco Marrone)
- Chapter 9. Platform capitalism: Infrastructuring migration, mobility, and racism (Stefania Animento)
- Chapter 10. Affect, precarity and feminised labour inAirbnb in London (Eleni Kambouri)
- Part II. Notes from the Field
- Chapter 11. Why the sectoral context matters for platform work (Bettina Haidinger)
- Chapter 12. A Variegated Platform Capitalism? Algorithms, Labour Process and Institutions in Deliveroo in Bologna and Uber in Lisbon (Marco Marrone)
- Chapter 13. Perceiving platform work as decent work? Views regarding working conditions among platform taxi drivers in Tallinn (Marge Unt)
- Chapter 14. Skills development as a political process: Towards new forms of mobilization and digital citizenship among platform workers (Filippo Bignami)
- Chapter 15. How to build alternatives to platform capitalism? (Mayo Fuster Morell)
- Chapter 16. Labour policies for a fairer gig economy (Annamaria Donini)
- Chapter 17. Engaging stakeholders with platform labour: The social lab approach (Raúl Tabarés)
- Chapter 18. Local best practices. Urban governance and the ongoing platformization process (Michelangelo Secchi)
- Chapter 19. Social protection, basic income and taxation in the Digital economy (Cristina Morini)
- Chapter 20. Latent conflict, invisible organisation: Everyday struggles in platform labour (Moritz Altenreid)