De Stavola – A New Platform Union. The Case of Rappi in Mexico City

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

Logistics Struggles in the Po Valley Region: Territorial Transformations and Processes of Antagonistic Subjectivation

Milan, metropolitan area. October 7, 2011. Hundreds of people stand before the cages of a warehouse. They are logistics workers at Esselunga, a large Italian supermarket chain, protesting because some of their coworkers were laid off in the wake of a series of strikes. A long line of red and yellow trucks waits in front …

Le lotte nella logistica nella valle del Po

Negli ultimi quattro anni una diffusa successione di forme di vertenzialità conflittuale ha coinvolto il mondo della logistica nel nord Italia. Decine di magazzini del settore sono stati al centro di scioperi: dalle aziende maggiori (Bartolini, TNT, GLS, DHL…) a ditte minori, sino a coinvolgere il comparto logistico di imprese multinazionali come Ikea e Granarolo. …