代价是什么?按需食品配送中的劳工政治和精打细算的权力斗争

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.1.0136

N. Doorn

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摘要

本文提出的问题是，在以动态收费结构为特征的零工经济中，将可计算性作为工资政治的关键要求，可以获得什么好处。书中讲述了一小群柏林外卖工人如何试图挑战Deliveroo的市场力量，他们自己搭建了临时计算设备，帮助他们“逆向工程”该公司的收费定价算法。然后，它记录了这些“骑手”在试图将他们争取可计算收入的斗争转化为更全面的劳工政治时所经历的困难。最后，本文在仍然普遍存在的“平台例外论”的背景下，解决了基于市场的计算能力斗争的局限性:一种社会法律想象，将平台公司视为独特的商业实体，使他们能够参与监管套利，同时通过合同强制执行零工工人的从属地位和权利。

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At what price? Labour politics and calculative power struggles in on-demand food delivery

This article asks what can be gained by making calculability a pivotal demand for wage politics in gig economies characterised by dynamic fee structures. It examines how a small group of Berlin-based food delivery workers attempted to challenge Deliveroo’s market power by building their own makeshift calculative equipment to help them ‘reverse engineer’ the company’s fee pricing algorithm. It then documents the difficulties these ‘riders’ experienced when attempting to translate their fight for calculable earnings into a more comprehensive labour politics. Finally, the article addresses the limits of market-based struggles over calculative power, against the background of a still pervasive ‘platform exceptionalism’: a socio-legal imaginary that treats platform companies as unique business entities, enabling them to engage in regulatory arbitrage while contractually enforcing the subordination and rightlessness of gig workers.

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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Business, Management and Accounting-Industrial Relations

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3.70

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期刊介绍： Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation aims to: -Provide a single home for articles which specifically address issues relating to the changing international division of labour and the restructuring of work in a global knowledge-based economy. -Bring together the results of empirical research, both qualitative and quantitative, with theoretical analyses in order to inform the development of new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the restructuring of work, organisational structures and labour in a global context. -Be global in scope, with a particular emphasis on attracting contributions from developing countries as well as from Europe, North America and other developed regions. -Encourage a dialogue between university-based researchers and their counterparts in international and national government agencies, independent research institutes, trade unions and civil society as well as other policy makers. Subject to the requirements of scholarly peer review, it is open to submissions from contributors working outside the academic sphere and encourages an accessible style of writing in order to facilitate this goal. -Complement, rather than compete with, existing discipline-based journals. -Bring to the attention of English-speaking readers relevant articles originally published in other languages.