Is it possible to outsmart Uber? Individual working tactics within platform work in Poland

IF 2.3 1区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

European Societies Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI:10.1080/14616696.2022.2156578

Dominika Polkowska, Bartosz Mika

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Platform work in general requires workers to apply specific strategies to stay afloat. In Poland, platform work is a complex system of mutual relations and interdependencies between transnational corporations, national regulators, service providers, intermediaries and platform workers. Based on thirty-one in-depth interviews with Uber drivers in Poland and two expert interviews with fleet partners, this article presents the working strategies adopted by platform workers and looks at how the historical experience of communism may shape responses to twenty-first-century global capitalism. The analysis shows that an adequate remuneration can only be made by adopting the strategy called kombinowanie, a combination of small cheating, fiddling and exploiting loopholes in the law.

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有可能比优步更聪明吗?波兰平台工作中的个人工作策略

一般来说，平台工作需要工人运用特定的策略来保持漂浮。在波兰，平台工作是跨国公司、国家监管机构、服务提供商、中介机构和平台工作人员之间相互关系和相互依赖的复杂系统。基于对波兰优步司机的31次深度访谈和对车队合作伙伴的两次专家访谈，本文提出了平台工人采用的工作策略，并探讨了共产主义的历史经验如何影响对21世纪全球资本主义的反应。分析表明，只有采取一种叫做kombinowanie的策略才能获得足够的报酬，这是一种结合了小欺骗、欺骗和利用法律漏洞的策略。

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European Societies SOCIOLOGY-

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15.70

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