2021
DOI: 10.3390/soc12010006
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Identities and Precariousness in the Collaborative Economy, Neither Wage-Earner, nor Self-Employed: Emergence and Consolidation of the Homo Rider, a Case Study

Abstract: In recent years, courier and home delivery services have experienced extensive growth around the world. These platform companies, that operate through applications on smartphones, have experienced the benefits of the technological leap that has been produced by the conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its restrictions on traditional commerce. This business model integrates novel elements that move away from a classic contractual relationship, employer-employee. They combine a strong cooperative cult… Show more

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“…It is a proposal for 15 semi-structured interviews in order to expand and develop the information collected in the surveys from their testimonies. The content and thematic blocks of the interviews have been designed based on the previous study of the consultation of primary sources and scientific articles in this field of study, as well as the experience obtained from the exploratory pilot work carried out in the city of Murcia (López-Martínez et al 2022). In order to establish categories and analyze the different dimensions to organize the structure of the interviews, we used the MaxQda program.…”
Section: Qualitative Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is a proposal for 15 semi-structured interviews in order to expand and develop the information collected in the surveys from their testimonies. The content and thematic blocks of the interviews have been designed based on the previous study of the consultation of primary sources and scientific articles in this field of study, as well as the experience obtained from the exploratory pilot work carried out in the city of Murcia (López-Martínez et al 2022). In order to establish categories and analyze the different dimensions to organize the structure of the interviews, we used the MaxQda program.…”
Section: Qualitative Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, it is important to emphasize that stimulating cohesion among colleagues can be good to a certain extent, as it seems to lead to a higher level of WFC. Thus, it would also be noted that the existence of some control from management can help teachers not only to fulfill their pedagogic goals, but also help them to monitor their task performance and prevent their WFC to a certain extent [63,64]. As such, control can be a directive strategy focused on goals, but also on the teacher.…”
Section: Practical Implicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…59.2023.37940 distintos efectos de control sobre la fuerza de trabajo (Revilla y Blázquez 2021). En estos análisis encontramos el ensayo de tipologías que, por un lado, sitúan al rider en relación con el resto de trabajadores de la economía de plataformas y, por el otro, delimitan su características singulares (López-Martínez et al 2022). Estos trabajos perfilan el efecto de la mediación algorítmica en tanto que un control esencialmente panóptico (Vallas y Schor 2020: 278), una aproximación que genera una separación entre el algoritmo y el rider y que conduce a que el trabajador, en buena medida, se defina sobre todo por su sujeción a las lógicas de control que define el algoritmo.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…Unas lógicas que están justificadas además por ciertas retóricas empresariales de la "autonomía" laboral características de estas empresas de plataforma (Díez y Ranz 2020; Lehdonvirta 2018). Desde estos presupuestos teóricos, el algoritmo produce una suerte de fijación de categorías en torno a una "identidad rider", la cual se constituye en oposición a los intereses de las empresas, sin dejar de hacer suya la apelación a la "flexibilidad" que utilizan las compañías en la definición del trabajo que ofrecen (López-Martínez et al 2022). Una segunda y también prolífica línea de trabajos en torno a la figura del rider, es la que explora cómo las dinámicas de automatización e informatización de las tareas transforman los entornos de trabajo, y cómo estos procesos tienden a relegar la actividad de los empleados a las funciones menos valoradas o que generan menor valor añadido dentro del proceso productivo (Frey y Osborne 2017, López-Martínez et al 2022.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
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