The digital economy and its implications for labour. 1. The platform economy

Drahokoupil, Jan; Jepsen, Maria

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“…requesters (employers and/or consumers) and providers (workers)’, suggesting some unexplained change of heart (p. 5). Some authors use different terms within the same article; for instance; Drahokoupil and Jepsen (2017: 105) write of not only ‘platforms . .…”

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Rediscovering the cash nexus, again: Subsumption and the labour–capital relation in platform work

Joyce

2020

Capital & Class

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This article proposes a re-theorisation of the main social relations of platform work, based on two concepts drawn from Marx: subsumption of labour and the cash nexus. Platform work research to date is heavily empirical in character, with little theoretical development. As a result, the social relations of platform work are treated descriptively, using ad hoc or common-sense categories, or platforms’ own terminology. This under-theorisation leads to over-estimation of platform work’s novelty, decentring of capital in accounts of its development, incipient technological determinism and problematic generalisation from emergent trends. In place of the commonly assumed ‘triangle’ of platform work relations, this article argues that platform work is best understood in terms of an emerging labour–capital relation, which establishes a cash nexus between platform and worker as a result of a process of subsumption. This re-theorisation, in turn, helps to understand the rapid emergence of platform worker organisation and resistance, and the similarity of its demands with worker resistance in other, more established areas of paid work under capitalist relations of production.

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Section: Many Trianglesmentioning

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Rediscovering the cash nexus, again: Subsumption and the labour–capital relation in platform work

Joyce

2020

Capital & Class

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“…The digital economy, through the development of long‐distance forms of labour, could also reduce gender biases (Drahokoupil and Jepsen, ; Graham et al., ) and other forms of discrimination regarding, for instance, the LGBTQ community. This is because workers could reach distant markets where such forms of discrimination appear to be less entrenched in society (Graham et al., ) and, therefore, less likely to affect the hiring process.…”

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The Digital Economy: Opportunities and Challenges

Amuso

Poletti²,

Montibello³

2019

Global Policy

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“…The global rise of China has been punctuated by debates on this country as a source of investment, migration, and aid. While for decades a pattern prevailed whereby large multinationals (MNCs) invested in China and contributed to the government‐led transformation of workplaces, employment relations, and labour institutions, Chinese MNCs, as well as individual entrepreneurs, are now increasingly investing abroad (Drahokoupil and Jepson, ).…”

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“…Europe has become a key destination for Chinese investments (Drahokoupil and Jepson, ), and this has prompted concerns that a Chinese model of work and employment practices will flow into Europe and bring a decrease in labour standards (Meunier, ). It is difficult, however, to single out a set of Chinese indigenous work and employment practices that can be exported.…”

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A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe?

Ceccagno

Sacchetto

2019

International Migration

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Based on long-term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic. Our findings bring new insights to bear on issues for which research is still thin on the ground and challenge the hypothesis of a 'Chinesisation' of work and employment practices in Chinese small firms and MNCs operating in Europe. We move the focus away from the simple analysis of firm management prevailing in the literature and suggest that, in order to understand the firm's behaviours, the role of the state, the unions, the migrant workers and the role of temporary work agencies should all be taken into consideration.

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The digital economy and its implications for labour. 1. The platform economy

Cited by 42 publications

References 4 publications

Rediscovering the cash nexus, again: Subsumption and the labour–capital relation in platform work

Rediscovering the cash nexus, again: Subsumption and the labour–capital relation in platform work

The Digital Economy: Opportunities and Challenges

A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe?

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