Mind the gap between discourses and practices: Platform workers’ representation in France and Italy

Borghi, Paolo; Murgia, Annalisa; Mondon‐Navazo, Mathilde; Mezihorák, Petr

doi:10.1177/09596801211004268

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“…Union success in actually building this kind of solidaristic cooperation is likely to differ significantly across countries. For example, Borghi et al (2021) find that French trade unions were more successful in organizing and representing platform workers compared to those in Italy. They argue this is due in part to French unions’ greater success in developing alliances across traditional unions and newer labour groups; while in Italy, ‘mutual distrust dominated the attempts at dialogue and cooperation between trade unions […] and grassroots groups’ (p.439).…”

Section: Cer and Digitalizationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Collective regulation and the future of work in the digital economy: Insights from comparative employment relations

Doellgast

Wagner

2022

Journal of Industrial Relations

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The impact of technological change on employment, inequality and job quality has attracted considerable analysis from both scholars and practitioners. However, less attention has been paid to how digital technologies are changing contemporary workplaces and how workers are responding to these changes. This article reviews recent research from the multidisciplinary comparative employment relations field, with a focus on institutional resilience or change associated with digitalization; and the strategic responses of unions and other worker representatives to these trends. We find that the insights of economists, sociologists and employment relations scholars are complementary, as each addresses a different dimension of technological change and associated worker outcomes. Comparative employment relations researchers are more likely to influence current debates where they both articulate the unique contribution of their multi-method and comparative research methods and aggregate findings beyond single or paired industry and national case studies.

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Section: Cer and Digitalizationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Collective regulation and the future of work in the digital economy: Insights from comparative employment relations

Doellgast

Wagner

2022

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…On the other hand, rising insecurity and precariousness, not only of work and employment but also of people’s lives, has inspired resistance and generated new forms of solidarity in difference (Butler, 2015). These achievements in terms of alternative organizations, arising within and beyond trade unions and existing social movements are faced with the challenge of building cohesion out of diversity (Borghi et al, 2021; Hyman and Gumbrell-McCormick, 2017).…”

Section: Achievements and Emerging Imaginariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, rising insecurity and precariousness, not only of work and employment but also of people's lives, has inspired resistance and generated new forms of solidarity in difference (Butler, 2015). These achievements in terms of alternative organizations, arising within and beyond trade unions and existing social movements are faced with the challenge of building cohesion out of diversity (Borghi et al, 2021;Hyman and Gumbrell-McCormick, 2017). Oosterlynck et al (2016) argue that the four traditional sources of solidarity-interdependence, shared norms and values, struggle, and encounter-that were traditionally all geared toward homogeneity are still relevant to conceptualize alternatives, but they need to be rethought and reimagined to embrace heterogeneity.…”

Section: Achievements and Emerging Imaginariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizing solidarity in difference: Challenges, achievements, and emerging imaginaries

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This special issue explores how solidarity in difference can be organized as a mutual relation that is based on participation on equal footing, fostering bonds of heterogeneity beyond conceptualizations of solidarity that depend on homogeneity. In this editorial and the five articles comprising this special issue, not only are the challenges to such an endeavor explored, but also the achievements in the present and emerging imaginaries of organizing solidarity beyond an exploitative understanding of difference. The perspectives this special issue brings together include re-centering the Eurocentric concepts of organizing and solidarity, solidarity in research, solidarity as affective practice as well as the political and socio-economic relations that frame them. In addition to promoting an understanding of subjectivity shaped by power relations embedded in multiple social experiences, the articles in this special issue elaborate on solidarity in difference rather than a benevolent solidarity with difference and contribute, accordingly, to an understanding of organizing solidarity that starts from principles of radical interdependence, mutual recognition, and universal participation. Without neglecting the pitfalls and obstacles to organizing solidarity, this special issue hopefully sparks new debates on and informs new practices of solidarity in difference as there cannot be one single way to achieve this.

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“…Glovo, Just Eat or Deliveroo) and crowd-work (e.g. Amazon Mechanical Turk), where economic costs, working times and tasks are set by digital labour platforms, which, however, employ workers mainly as self-employed (Borghi et al, 2021;Howcroft & Bergvall-Kåreborn, 2019;Kaine & Josserand, 2019).…”

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Independent or Dependent? European Labour Statistics and Their (In)ability to Identify Forms of Dependency in Self-employment

Bozzon

Murgia

2021

Soc Indic Res

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In the studies on labour market change and transformation of employment relations, the growth of new forms of self-employment, including platform work, has raised a broad debate about how to define, classify, and analyse the wide range of positions within the heterogeneous category of self-employed workers. This article analyses the emergent methodologies used in European comparative labour statistics to identify forms of dependency in self-employment. Using the 6th wave of the 2015 European Working Condition Survey and the 2017 ad hoc module on self-employment from the European Labour Force Survey, this article discusses how the representation of dependent self-employment changes by adopting a different operationalization of economic and operational dependency. Findings show how different indicators of dependency change the representation of self-employment in different economic sectors, affecting our understanding of the transformation of working arrangements within self-employment and the boundaries between employment and self-employment.

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Mind the gap between discourses and practices: Platform workers’ representation in France and Italy

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

Collective regulation and the future of work in the digital economy: Insights from comparative employment relations

Collective regulation and the future of work in the digital economy: Insights from comparative employment relations

Organizing solidarity in difference: Challenges, achievements, and emerging imaginaries

Independent or Dependent? European Labour Statistics and Their (In)ability to Identify Forms of Dependency in Self-employment

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