Mutualism, class composition, and the reshaping of worker organisation in platform work and the gig economy

IF 1.3 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Gabriella Alberti, Simon Joyce
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This article contributes an understanding of mutualism as a foundational element in emergent worker collectivism. We challenge mainstream institutionalist accounts in industrial relations, especially from the Global North, that downplay processes of bottom-up regeneration of working-class organisation. We discuss compositional accounts of class formation and examine previous understandings of mutualism, then apply our conceptual framework to evidence from international literature and our own research on platform work in Italy and the UK. Three important themes emerge in understanding worker self-organisation: the demographics of the workforce, including migration backgrounds and social ties beyond the workplace; the existence of social relations in the ethnic/political/local community; and the relevance of free spaces of resource sharing and recomposition in the absence of a fixed place of work. We conclude that an understanding of mutualism can help to grasp emergent solidarities among new groups of workers within and beyond both platform work and trade unions.
互惠主义,阶级构成,以及平台工作和零工经济中工人组织的重塑
本文有助于理解互惠主义作为新兴工人集体主义的基本要素。我们对工业关系的主流制度主义解释提出了挑战,尤其是来自全球北方的制度主义,它们低估了工人阶级组织自下而上的再生过程。我们讨论了阶级形成的组成部分,并检查了以前对互惠主义的理解,然后将我们的概念框架应用于国际文献和我们自己对意大利和英国平台工作的研究。在理解员工自我组织时,出现了三个重要主题:劳动力的人口结构,包括移民背景和工作场所以外的社会关系;民族/政治/地方共同体中社会关系的存在;在没有固定工作场所的情况下,资源共享和重组的自由空间的相关性。我们的结论是,对互惠主义的理解有助于把握平台工作和工会内外新工人群体之间的新兴团结。
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