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Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion book cover

1st Edition

Platform Labour and Global Logistics A Research Companion

Edited By Immanuel Ness Copyright 2023
314 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs. This ineluctable shift is a consequence of the concentrated application of neoliberalism since the 1980s, as capitalism is converting standardised labour markets in the developed Global North into contingent and informal labour. Platform Labour and... Read more

List of Contributors

Introduction

Immanuel Ness

Part I. Global Logistics and Platform Labour

  1. The E-Logistics Revolution: Amazon, Labour, and the Future of Logistics Work

    2. Jake Alimahomed-Wilson

  2. Lords of the Platform: Rentier Capitalism and the Platform Economy

    3. Jathan Sadowski

  3. Digitalization, Automation and the Future of Globalization

    4. Samuel T. King

  4. Global Supply Chains in the Gig Economy

    5. Dieter Bögenhold & Farah Naz

    Part II. Labour Restructuring and Platform Work

  5. Thriving Small-scale Entrepreneurs or Precarious Own-account Workers? Concepts and Politics of Informal Work since the 1970s

    6. Sibylle Marti

  6. 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

    7. Aleksandra Webb

  7. Adjunct and Precarious Teaching Labour in Higher Education

    8. Eva-Maria Swidler

  8. New Forms of Agency or Atomization? Platform Workers’ Power Resources and Fragmentation

    9. Heiner Heiland (Technical University Darmstadt)

    　

    Part III. Global Case Studies of Platform and Informal Labour

  9. Transportation Workers Mobilization against the Platform Economy: Korea

    10. Aelim Yun

  10. `Cheap, fast and flexible. Processes of informalization in Asian garment manufacturing

    11. Anna Salmivaara

  11. Digital Labour Platforms and the Uberization of Work in Portugal

    12. Isabel Roque

  12. Piece wages in US and Canadian Agriculture as Political Technologies of Labour Control: Implications for the Wider Platform Economy

    13. Emily Reid-Musson & Hannah Johnston

  13. Delivering (In)justice: Contestations within India’s digital food delivery platforms.

    14. Shyam Krishna

  14. India’s Platform Economy Experience: A Site for the Commodification-Decommodification Dynamic

    15. Premilla D’Cruz & Ernesto Noronha

  15. Entrepreneurship, Informality and the Platform Economy: the Resignification of precariousness in Brazil

    16. Jacob Carlos Lima

    Part IV. Migration, and Platform Work

  16. Contactless delivery: Migrant experiences in the platform economy

    17. Tyler Riordan, Richard Robinson, Gerhard Hofstaedter

  17. With this Ring, with this Striving:　 Love, Marriage, and Labor in the Platform Economy in Southeast Asia

    18. Teresita C. del Rosario & Linda A. Lumayag

  18. Fragmented Labour, Punctuated Temporalities: Spatio-temporal Precarisation among Student Migrant Workers

Oliva Maury　

Index

Biography

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, NY, USA.

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