Challenging Goliath. Informal Unionism and Digital Platforms in the Food Delivery Sector. The Case of Riders Union Bologna

Finotto,; Marrone, Marco

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“…Irrespective of their type of employment, workers can join trade unions, which are present in the sector and bargain with employers’ organisations. In recent years, the food delivery platform sector has experienced growth in formal and informal unionism and subsequent struggles leading to the introduction of collective labour regulation on some platforms, manifesting unions’ ability to use their still relatively significant power to gain concessions (Marrone, 2021; Marrone and Finotto, 2019).…”

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“…This in turn leads to lower incomes (Berger et al, 2018), irregular working time (De Stefano, 2015) and a lack of control over work (Franke and Pulignano, 2020). Platforms are ‘institutional chameleons’ (Vallas and Schor, 2020) whose effects on employment depend on the environment (Daugareilh, 2020; Drahokoupil and Vandaele, 2021), and are impacted by different forms of worker representation (Heiland, 2020), union traditions (Englert et al, 2020; Marrone and Finotto, 2019), reactions from local governments (Spicer et al, 2019), situation on the local labour market (Altenried et al, 2021), as well as by trajectories of regional business evolution (Alvarez-Palau et al, 2021). Thelen (2018) comparative study on Uber found that worker misclassification is prevalent in the United States, where social insurance is directly tied to employment status.…”

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Product markets and working conditions on international and regional food delivery platforms: A study in Poland and Italy

Muszyński

Pulignano

Marà

2022

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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Researchers search for factors explaining the disruptive impact of labour platforms on work, yet very few studies explore how platforms approach product markets and the resultant effects on platform workers’ working conditions. Looking at this question, this paper studies distinct but similar international and regional food delivery platforms in Poland and Italy, exploring which factors explain differences in their working conditions. Two findings emerge. First, international and regional platforms differ substantially in terms of how they approach product markets. Second, these differences account for the variety within (and across) platforms’ employment outcomes.

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Product markets and working conditions on international and regional food delivery platforms: A study in Poland and Italy

Muszyński

Pulignano

Marà

2022

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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‘If we lower our responsiveness, the algorithm likes us less’ . A biographical perspective on (losing) control in the platform economy

Riemann,

Marà,

Domecka

et al. 2023

Labour and Industry

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The gig economy has attracted a lot of attention in the contemporary discourse in the social sciences. While there have been numerous -mostly qualitative -studies on the experience and the conditions of platform labour, the exploratory potential of biographical research has so far been overlooked. This article responds to this gap in research by presenting a case study of a French crowdworker, who was interviewed in the context of a larger European research project on precariousness and unpaid labour. On the basis of her autobiographical narrative, the authors reconstruct how her relationship with two online labour platforms evolved throughout the course of two years. The aim of this article is to illustrate the benefits of adopting a longitudinal, process-oriented perspective on the experience of online gig work in a biographical context. By giving informants the time and space to openly narrate and reflect about how their lives evolved, it also becomes possible for them to work through difficult past experiences and gain new perspectives. Furthermore, this research approach can be a tool to amplify 'voices from below' as a corrective against powerful corporate strategies. The authors aim to make the process of interpreting autobiographical narrative interviews (Schütze, 2008) transparent by highlighting the analytical relevance of selected formal textual features.

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Navigating resistance on digital platforms: delivery and transportation labor in Türkiye

Ersöz,

Başaran

2024

Front. Sociol.

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Digital platforms are transforming the world of work. However, platforms operating in similar fields of activity encounter varying mechanisms of opposition, as a result of different degrees of professional institutionalization and their relations with the state. This study examines the diversified labor/capital struggle processes on platforms operating at different points of urban mobility in Istanbul and makes an evaluation between delivery and transportation platforms. Therefore, the actions of workers against digital platforms, news reports and public statements of relevant actors in both fields were systematically analyzed. As a result of the study, it is seen that the labor struggle in delivery services includes demands for the regulation of work in parallel with traditional working class reflexes. On the other hand, the resistance in the urban transport platforms is formed in the center of the rent and turns into an institutional struggle as a result of the public activity of the actors. Thus, the inter-class struggle in delivery services operating on digital platforms transforms into an intra-class rent-sharing struggle in urban transport.

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Challenging Goliath. Informal Unionism and Digital Platforms in the Food Delivery Sector. The Case of Riders Union Bologna

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Product markets and working conditions on international and regional food delivery platforms: A study in Poland and Italy

Product markets and working conditions on international and regional food delivery platforms: A study in Poland and Italy

‘If we lower our responsiveness, the algorithm likes us less’ . A biographical perspective on (losing) control in the platform economy

Navigating resistance on digital platforms: delivery and transportation labor in Türkiye

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