Riding for Deliveroo
Resistance in the New Economy
Seiten
2019
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-3551-4 (ISBN)
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-3551-4 (ISBN)
What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out.
His vivid account of the reality is grim. Workers are being tyrannised by algorithms and exploited for the profit of the few – but they are not taking it lying down. Cant reveals a transnational network of encrypted chats and informal groups which have given birth to a wave of strikes and protests. Far from being atomised individuals helpless in the face of massive tech companies, workers are tearing up the rulebook and taking back control. New developments in the workplace are combining to produce an explosive subterranean class struggle – where the stakes are high, and the risks are higher.
Riding for Deliveroo is the first portrait of a new generation of working class militants. Its mixture of compelling first-hand testimony and engaging analysis is essential for anyone wishing to understand class struggle in platform capitalism.
His vivid account of the reality is grim. Workers are being tyrannised by algorithms and exploited for the profit of the few – but they are not taking it lying down. Cant reveals a transnational network of encrypted chats and informal groups which have given birth to a wave of strikes and protests. Far from being atomised individuals helpless in the face of massive tech companies, workers are tearing up the rulebook and taking back control. New developments in the workplace are combining to produce an explosive subterranean class struggle – where the stakes are high, and the risks are higher.
Riding for Deliveroo is the first portrait of a new generation of working class militants. Its mixture of compelling first-hand testimony and engaging analysis is essential for anyone wishing to understand class struggle in platform capitalism.
Callum Cant is a former Deliveroo delivery worker and PhD candidate at the University of West London
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Job
3. The System of Control
4. A Short History of Precarious Militants
5. The Workers
6. The Strikes
7. Looking Forward
8. A New Wave
9. Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.10.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 137 x 213 mm |
Gewicht | 272 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5095-3551-9 / 1509535519 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-3551-4 / 9781509535514 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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