Regulating Flexibility: Uber’s Platform as a Technological Work Arrangement

IF 1 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies Pub Date : 2020-09-27 DOI:10.18291/njwls.122197

S. Oppegaard

引用次数: 10

Abstract

When initiating its Norwegian operations, the transportation platform Uber adjusted its business model to the Norwegian regulation of the taxi market by focusing on its high-end offering, Uber Black, organized through limousine companies who employ the drivers and own the cars. The Uber Black drivers in Oslo are classified as employees and endowed with a substantially flexible work arrangement. Based on a ‘traveling ethnography’ among Uber Black drivers in Oslo, this article conceptualizes Uber’s digital platform as a technological work arrangement. The analysis shows that while the platform is experienced as an opaque form of management that limits the drivers’ formal flexibility, the effects of the technological work arrangement is contingent on the drivers’ formal work arrangement and the characteristics of the Uber Black market in Oslo.

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监管灵活性：优步平台作为一种技术工作安排

在启动挪威业务时，交通平台优步（Uber）根据挪威对出租车市场的监管调整了其商业模式，专注于其高端产品优步黑色（Uber Black），该产品由雇佣司机并拥有汽车的豪华轿车公司组织。奥斯陆的优步黑人司机被归类为雇员，并被赋予了相当灵活的工作安排。基于奥斯陆优步黑人司机的“旅行民族志”，本文将优步的数字平台概念化为一种技术工作安排。分析表明，尽管该平台是一种不透明的管理形式，限制了司机的正式灵活性，但技术工作安排的效果取决于司机的正式工作安排和奥斯陆优步黑市的特点。

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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-

CiteScore

1.50

自引率

20.00%

发文量

审稿时长

32 weeks

期刊介绍： The Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies is an international, scientific journal on working life, written in English. The journal is edited by an Editorial Board of 8-15 Editors from Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The journal aims to strengthen the exchange of experiences, perspectives, methods and outcomes of the Nordic working life research across the Nordic countries, and promote Nordic working life research internationally. The mission of the journal is to present studies concerning changes in work and how these changes affect qualifications, health, occupation, innovation, economy, identity, social orientation and culture. The journal aims at an interdisciplinary profile. Most of the articles in the journal have authors from the Nordic countries, but researchers from outside the Nordic region are also invited to contribute to the journal, to the extent that such contributions improve the understanding of Nordic conditions.