Platform Capitalism: Infrastructuring Migration, Mobility, and Racism

Animento, Stefania

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-49147-4_9

Springer Studies in Alternative Economics

2024

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49147-4_9

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Platform Capitalism: Infrastructuring Migration, Mobility, and Racism

Stefania Animento

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Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor”: Indian tech workers in the United States

Roy

2024

Sociological Forum

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In racial capitalism, employers increase their profit by recruiting “cheap labor,” who are typically racialized minorities. States and employers govern these workers by carceral means, variously confining them, extracting their labor, and ensuring that they remain docile enough not to protest and demand better wages and rights. But how are workers—who draw high wages yet experience labor devaluation or “cheapening”—governed? Based on interviews and participant observation, I study Indian immigrant tech workers in the United States. To distinguish their class position, I characterize them as “high‐income cheap labor” and contend that these workers are governed by “covert carcerality”—where the material privilege of high income and documented migration make their labor devaluation by carceral means insidious. I identify three mechanisms of covert carcerality—neutral enclosures, informalization, and restricted family formation. The covert carcerality of high‐income cheap labor reveals the class‐based variations of carceral labor governance in neoliberal capitalism.

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Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor”: Indian tech workers in the United States

Roy

2024

Sociological Forum

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‘What damage could a small breeze do to a fence?’ The lack of collective action on ride-hailing platforms in Berlin and Tallinn

Animento,

Kall,

Niebler

et al. 2024

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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The proliferation of ride-hailing platforms in the last decade has been challenged by workers’ mobilization around the world. In order to complement the existing research on successful organizing, in this article the authors investigate the lack of collective resistance in two cases. By comparing the ride-hailing industry in Berlin (Germany) and Tallinn (Estonia), the authors explain the absence of collective mobilization in these different contexts. While ride-hailing in Berlin is more regulated than in Tallinn, drivers in both cities are structurally located in the weakest position within labour relations. Their isolation presents common features found in the business model and the work process, but also within wider societal structures and ideological landscape.

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Platform Capitalism: Infrastructuring Migration, Mobility, and Racism

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Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor”: Indian tech workers in the United States

Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor”: Indian tech workers in the United States

‘What damage could a small breeze do to a fence?’ The lack of collective action on ride-hailing platforms in Berlin and Tallinn

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