A Collective Research on Logistics, Spaces, Labour
Lo scorso 21 ottobre il sindacato di lavoratori portuali chileno, Unión Portuaria de Chile, ha dato il via a uno sciopero indefinito contro la repressione, lo Stato d’Eccezione e il coprifuoco, decretati e attuati dal governo di Sebastián Piñera in risposta all’insurrezione popolare (segnaliamo questo post di Nicolas Palacios che spiega brevemente come mai il …
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Here the second video of Into the Black Box session at RC21 conference “In and Beyond the City”
RC21 Conference 18-21 September, Delhi
Roundtable The Global Challenges of Platform Economy: A Trans-Urban Perspective
Federico De Stavola – A New Platform Union. The Case of Rappi in Mexico City
The platforms, informed by extractive, financial and logistical logics, as installing in Latin America, find and catch some characteristics of the urban fabric, producing subjectivity. By discussing the case of Rappi in Mexico City, we will use two Latin American theoretical contributions, the so called “neoliberalism from below”, raised by Verónica Gago, and “over-exploitation of work”, theorized in the 70s by Ruy Mauro Marini; they will let us shed light, respectively, on popular self-entrepreneurship and the robbery of value through the outsourcing to the rider of the means of production
Here the first video of Into the Black Box session at RC21 conference “In and Beyond the City”
Roundtable The Global Challenges of Platform Economy: A Trans-Urban Perspective
Mariana Manriquez – The Case of Uber Drivers in Monterrey
Uber, the virtual service that connects drivers to passenger, presents a novel form of work-organization in which managerial functions are transposed into a virtual platform.
This ethnographic study documents how Uber drivers in the city of Monterrey, Mexico navigate and come to make sense of the Uber model of work. Employing the conceptual device of the work-game, this study argues that engagement in the game of “earning coins” coupled the interest of drivers in generating the most-possible income with the interest of management in maintaining a readily available labor pool. Reinforcing this coupling was Uber’s deployment of an entrepreneurial ideology of “being your own boss,” which was especially important given the company’s lack of a physical management structure. However, as Uber takes advantage of the deindustrialization that has gripped Monterey, it attracts drivers exhibiting varied employment trajectories. This in turn creates different modes of playing the work-game and thus generates sharply divergent subjective understandings of the work, whose nature this chapter explores.
The city is more and more one of the main concepts of contemporary critical theory. Nevertheless, the very possibility to define what a city is remains at stake of contemporary theoretical, empirical and even political debates. The “academic babel” of contemporary urban studies is marked by a proliferation of approaches, methodologies, perspectives, increasingly proliferating and …
Call for contributions to a Special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation The theme The use of online platforms to organise the supply of services has major implications for the way that the labour involved in creating and delivering these services is managed. Recent research has shown an exponential growth in platform labour, which …