Platform Labour and Global Logistics (eBook, PDF)

A Research Companion
Redaktion: Ness, Immanuel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion presents a unique contribution to the political economy literature through highlighting the significance of the impact of the platform and logistics on the working class and potential challenges from labour across the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000822977
• Artikelnr.: 66500008

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I. Global Logistics and Platform Labour 1. The
E-Logistics Revolution: Amazon, Labour, and the Future of Logistics Work 2.
Lords of the Platform: Rentier Capitalism and the Platform Economy 3.
Digitalization, Automation and the Future of Globalization 4. Global Supply
Chains in the Gig Economy 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. 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. Adjunct and Precarious Teaching Labour in Higher
Education 8. New Forms of Agency or Atomization? Platform Workers' Power
Resources and Fragmentation Part III. Global Case Studies of Platform and
Informal Labour 9. Transportation Workers Mobilization against the Platform
Economy: Korea 10. Cheap, fast and flexible. Processes of informalization
in Asian garment manufacturing 11. Digital Labour Platforms and the
Uberization of Work in Portugal 12. Piece wages in US and Canadian
Agriculture as Political Technologies of Labour Control: Implications for
the Wider Platform Economy 13. Delivering (In)justice: Contestations within
India's digital food delivery platforms. 14. India's Platform Economy
Experience: A Site for the Commodification-Decommodification Dynamic 15.
Entrepreneurship, Informality and the Platform Economy: the Resignification
of precariousness in Brazil Part IV. Migration, and Platform Work 16.
Contactless delivery: Migrant experiences in the platform economy 17. With
this Ring, with this Striving: Love, Marriage, and Labor in the Platform
Economy in Southeast Asia 18. Fragmented Labour, Punctuated Temporalities:
Spatio-temporal Precarisation among Student Migrant Workers