The active production of consent for employment precarity and the euphemisation of coercion in platform economies: The case of food delivery riders

IF 1.7 4区管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Economic and Industrial Democracy Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI:10.1177/0143831x231219465

Sofía Pérez-de-Guzmán Padrón, Amparo Serrano-Pascual, Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio

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The mobilisation of new distance-based technologies that permit the governance of platform workers’ behaviour constitutes a watershed in the organisation of work and a transformation of the grammar of wage-earning society. Employing a qualitative methodology, this article analyses Spanish riders’ (delivery couriers) experiences of these psychopolitical mechanisms. The results show that the neoliberal and entrepreneurial dispositive deployed by digital platforms induces new rationalities of self-governance that are characterised by productive self-optimisation and self-surveillance. However, the analysis also found that the interpellation of the dispositive and its technologies of subjectivation were not homogeneous across all of the study participants. The article describes the characteristics and argumentative positions of three groups of riders whose sociostructural position shaped their experiences and engagement with the platforms as well as resistance to control mechanisms and disciplinary processes.

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Economic and Industrial Democracy INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-

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期刊介绍： Economic and Industrial Democracy is an international peer reviewed journal that focuses on the study of initiatives designed to enhance the quality of working life through extending the democratic control of workers over the workplace and the economy. How those initiatives are affected by wider political, economic and technological factors are also of interest. Special emphasis is laid on international coverage of empirical material, including discussions of the social and economic conditions in various countries.