Maël Dif-Pradalier, Thomas Jammet, Julie Tiberghien, Filippo Bignami, Niccolo Cuppini
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The social and economic impacts of the emerging platform economy are most obvious in urban settings, where platforms are giving rise to unfamiliar dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, cooperation and division, as well as social and political integration and fragmentation. Platform urbanisation has created a new and unprecedented kind of politics. It has given rise to new political spaces and new subjectivities, resulting in a permanent reorganisation of ‘historical’ assemblages of territory, authority and rights. Drawing on the results of the European-based PLUS Project (Platform Labour in Urban Spaces: Fairness, Welfare, Development), this themed collection offers a fresh perspective on the platform economy by analysing it in terms of the relationship between urban contexts and the ongoing platformisation process, with an emphasis on how this relationship is reshaping (platform) labour and reconfiguring (or even reinvigorating) social action. Along the way, the articles in this issue consider whether platforms are useful for the development of urban environments and labour markets, or whether urban environments and labour markets are useful for the development of platforms. Likewise, they seek to identify the conditions under which relevant actors can mobilise and build alliances to ensure that such forms of development can be made to benefit not only workers but also (urban) citizens and the (urban) environment in general.
新兴平台经济对社会和经济的影响在城市环境中最为明显,在城市环境中,平台正在产生令人陌生的包容与排斥、合作与分裂、社会与政治融合与分裂的动态。平台城市化创造了一种前所未有的新型政治。它催生了新的政治空间和新的主体性,导致领土、权力和权利的 "历史 "组合不断重组。根据欧洲 PLUS 项目(城市空间中的平台劳动:公平、福利、发展)的成果,本主题文集从城市环境与正在进行的平台化进程之间的关系角度对平台经济进行了分析,重点探讨了这种关系如何重塑(平台)劳动和重构(甚至重振)社会行动,从而为平台经济提供了一个全新的视角。同时,本期文章还探讨了平台是否有助于城市环境和劳动力市场的发展,或者城市环境和劳动力市场是否有助于平台的发展。同样,这些文章还试图确定在哪些条件下,相关行动者可以动员起来并建立联盟,以确保这种发展形式不仅能惠及工人,还能惠及(城市)市民和整个(城市)环境。