Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics

Schaupp, Simon

doi:10.1177/09500170211031458

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“…Second, the ability to take the risk of losing one's job and being forced to look for another one -either in the industry or beyond -is possibly also related to the demographics of the Gorillas workforce. As mentioned earlier, digital labor platforms overwhelmingly attract migrant workers in Germany Schaupp 2021). While Gorillas is no exception to this general tendency in platform work -warehouse and delivery workers are mostly recent arrivals to Berlin -in some important ways, Gorillas workers do differ from both the 'migrantized' workforce in non-platform jobs and from other platform workers who are also migrants.…”

Section: Contextualizing the Collective Actions At Gorillasmentioning

confidence: 90%

Platformization of Urban Life

2022

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THANK YOU! ation. Our originally planned critical reflection on smart urbanism in relation to gender relations had been shifted to the examination of platform urbanism and digitized urban everyday life.We are also grateful to all participants of the international conference Platform Urbanism -Towards a technocapitalist transformation of European cities? in March 2021. Despite being still -or again -in locked down life, we had the chance to discuss face-to-zoom and via various other communication platforms intensively. After the conference, transcript publishing immediately made us an offer for a book publication, which we were very happy to agree on. In the last years the publisher has become specialized on the nexus of society, technology, and space in the field of cultural studies. In 2018, we have already published the anthology Smart Cities. Critical perspectives on digitalization in cities with transcript. For this current volume, some of the conference participants have contributed their papers in more detail and we were able to engage additional authors. We would like to thank all of them for the inspiring discussions of their drafts and the excellent revisions.Last, but not least, we would like to extend our gratitude for the technical support of the conference warranted by Luca Braun, Theresa Bürstmayer, and Mario Diethart and to Vivien Breinbauer for preparing the final book manuscript. We also thank Marielle Smith for her professional proof reading.In nearly every end there is a new beginning: in the aftermath of the fellowship, we were working on a project proposal together with labor and feminist geographer Karin Schwiter from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. And right at the moment when this book's manuscript was finished, we got the approval for the follow-up project Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of labour and intersectional inequalities in care services (TICS), which is funded by the German Research Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Austrian Science Fund. We are very excited about further collaborations and debates on digitized urban futures and critical, feminist reflections on technocapitalism, racialized labor relations, and gender justice.

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Section: Contextualizing the Collective Actions At Gorillasmentioning

confidence: 90%

Platformization of Urban Life

2022

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“…Second, the ability to take the risk of losing one's job and being forced to look for another one -either in the industry or beyond -is possibly also related to the demographics of the Gorillas workforce. As mentioned earlier, digital labor platforms overwhelmingly attract migrant workers in Germany (Altenried 2021;Schaupp 2021). While Gorillas is no exception to this general tendency in platform work -warehouse and delivery workers are mostly recent arrivals to Berlin -in some important ways, Gorillas workers do differ from both the 'migrantized' workforce in non-platform jobs and from other platform workers who are also migrants.…”

Section: Contextualizing the Collective Actions At Gorillasmentioning

confidence: 92%

Riders United Will Never Be Divided?

Orth¹

2022

Platformization of Urban Life

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In this paper Barbara Orth offers an analysis of the ongoing labor organizing effort at the grocery delivery platform Gorillas in the German capital Berlin. She argues that a particular combination of external circumstances and successful organizing strategies enabled a relatively small group of workers to temporarily disrupt a growing billion-dollar business. While the collective actions at Gorillas thus illustrate how local conditions can be successfully leveraged to disrupt a platform's operations from below, the paper cautions against generalizing from the Gorillas experience. Given the unpredictability of venture capital-driven markets¡ it remains a cautionary tale.

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“…However, critique after critique in ER and sociology of work journals, such as the Journal of Industrial Relations, Work Employment and Society, and Organisations and Human Relations, shows how far from the truth this can be in an asymmetrical algorithmic setting (Schaupp, 2022, pp. 316–319) where gig workers endure enormous work intensification and pressure while working in a pressurised, indifferent urban environment.…”

Section: A Case For the Resurrection Of Employment Relations In Indiamentioning

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Employment Relations Past, Present and Future: Demise or Resurrection in India?

Venkataraman

2023

NHRD Network Journal

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This critical reflective paper draws upon my reading, studying and teaching employment relations (ER) and human resource management (HRM) over the years, from a sociological perspective. I make a compelling case for ER as a research activity, an organisational habit and a way of reflexive thinking. There is a false perception that ER is outdated. Indifferent to fads, ER endeavours to see clearly and speak the truth fearlessly and excavate the challenges and possibilities of the socio-economic exchange within any employment relationship. ER’s real strength is its granular holistic, multi-layered understanding of the totality of the wage-effort bargain. It has always been interdisciplinary because it draws from a vast canvas of sociology, economics, political economy and even psychology. Tracing its trajectory, I map the context in which ER evolved from Fordism to Post-Fordism, how HRM tried to take its place, and why it cannot do what ER does. It is only with this critical sceptical inquisitive spirit of ER that an effective emotionally intelligent transparent HR-lifecycle with a well-thought-out employee voice mechanism can craft better workplaces. ER in India speak for gig workers and other casualised employment and intervenes urgently on their behalf by bringing their concerns to academic discussion and advocating change. In conjunction with critical management studies, the sociology of work and ER in India must go to the nub of inequality. It must reach out to broader constituencies to mitigate workplace inequalities in different situational and longitudinal work contexts.

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Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics

Cited by 38 publications

References 45 publications

Platformization of Urban Life

Platformization of Urban Life

Riders United Will Never Be Divided?

Employment Relations Past, Present and Future: Demise or Resurrection in India?

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