Delivering Food on Bikes:

Herr, Benjamin

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1h0nv3d.9

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“…They are taking part in governing urban spaces: “platform governance also acts powerfully to reshape perceptions and representations of mobility, connection, transaction and spatial awareness” (Barns 2019:56). As algorithmic management (Herr 2021; Stark and Pais 2020) is redefining labour relations, many are asking how control and power are exercised by platforms at large (Moore and Joyce 2020; Richardson 2020). For Culpepper and Thelen (2020:309), platforms are mobilising their users when threatened with regulations.…”

Section: Urban Platform Economy and Migrant Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The loads are heavy and the riders need to either buy or rent their own electric bike. The calculation of the pay is typical of other forms of algorithmic management, complex and hidden from workers (Herr 2021; Stark and Pais 2020; Woodcock 2021). You are given several hours to work, like any employee, but with none of the benefits.…”

Section: Hired By a Food Delivery Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

Baril

2023

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Platform food delivery workers have been under much scrutiny over the last couple of years. Undocumented riders, and their recent strikes and protests in France, have not received as much attention as other issues regarding platform labour (contract work, algorithmic control, surveillance). This article follows fieldwork conducted in Paris and interviews with food couriers. Building on work by critical urban studies, migration studies and science and technology studies, this research puts forward citizen‐rentier‐ship, a tool to understand how multiple parties profit from aspects of precarious status. Interviews with undocumented couriers who worked in Paris highlight how the subletting of accounts, the complicit role of the state, the hypocrisy of employers and the interdependency with the “regularised” put undocumented couriers in hyper‐precarious situations. This article concludes that labour laws, misclassification and migration policies are at the centre of the struggles of Paris’ delivery workers and that they need changes.

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