Antinomies of the gig economy: The annihilation of space by time or the annihilation of time by space?

IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 DEMOGRAPHY
Olivia Butler, Kristina Zampoukos, Don Mitchell
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This paper concerns migrants in Sweden working in various types of on and offline gig work. It explores how the temporal and spatial flexibility afforded to gig customers is predicated on temporal and spatial inflexibility for workers. The argument moves discussions beyond relational space by promoting a more fully dialectical view of space that understands it as simultaneously relational, relative, and absolute. Without such a view of space—which understands that space is not always open and fluid but just as often closed and fixed—it is impossible to understand the specific relations of labour that structure gig work, particularly offline gig work in such ways as to provide maximal flexibility for customers. This paper shows that the Marxian adage concerning how, in capitalism, space is annihilated by time, does not always hold. For workers doing cleaning and delivery gig work, the converse is oftentimes truer: time is annihilated by space. Gig workers—and even more so migrant gig workers crowded in the above-mentioned industries—experience the annihilation of time by space through the dual mandate that they must be available “just-in-time” and “just-in-place” to produce the spatiotemporal flexibility upon which the gig companies base their model and their success.

打工经济的反传统:时间毁灭空间还是空间毁灭时间?
本文涉及在瑞典从事各种线上线下工作的移民。它探讨了为 "零工 "顾客提供的时空灵活性是如何以工人的时空不灵活性为前提的。该论点提倡一种更全面的辩证空间观,将空间理解为同时具有关系性、相对性和绝对性,从而使讨论超越了关系空间。如果没有这样一种空间观--它理解空间并不总是开放和流动的,而往往是封闭和固定的--就不可能理解构建演出工作的特定劳动关系,特别是线下演出工作为顾客提供最大灵活性的方式。本文表明,马克思关于在资本主义中空间如何被时间消灭的格言并不总是成立的。对于从事清洁和送货工作的工人来说,情况往往恰恰相反:时间被空间消灭了。临时工--尤其是挤在上述行业中的外来临时工--由于必须 "及时 "和 "就地 "提供服务,以产生时空灵活性,这是临时工公司赖以成功的模式,因此他们经历了空间对时间的毁灭。
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期刊介绍: Population, Space and Place aims to be the leading English-language research journal in the field of geographical population studies. It intends to: - Inform population researchers of the best theoretical and empirical research on topics related to population, space and place - Promote and further enhance the international standing of population research through the exchange of views on what constitutes best research practice - Facilitate debate on issues of policy relevance and encourage the widest possible discussion and dissemination of the applications of research on populations - Review and evaluate the significance of recent research findings and provide an international platform where researchers can discuss the future course of population research
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