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Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion(Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics)

Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion(Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics)


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Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs. This ineluctable shift is a consequence of the concentrated application of neoliberalism since the 1980s, as capitalism is converting standardised labour markets in the developed Global North into contingent and informal labour. Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion examines the most important developments and features of global logistics and the emergence of the platform economy through historical comparative chapters and case studies. Part I surveys the logistics revolution and its impact on labour in key sectors of the global economy and probes the viability of the platform as a generator of economic and financial growth and innovation. The chapters of Part 1 offer a fulsome analysis and critique of the economic and technical reconfiguration brought on by neoliberal capitalism and the diffusion of the platform and logistics as a feasible model into the future. Part II examines labour restructuring from standardized to informal work through the platform and information technology, and the political and environmental challenges to labour. Part III provides global case studies on the informal economy through case studies of crucial economies where the platform has become dominant, and Part IV examines how the platform has contributed to geographic mobility and labour migration, and the consequences on workers. Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion presents a unique contribution to the political economy literature through highlighting the significance of the impact of the platform and logistics on the working class and potential challenges from labour across the world. This book is intended for academics, researchers and students studying technological innovation, global supply chains, labour restructuring, and worker resistance.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I. Global Logistics and Platform Labour 1. The E-Logistics Revolution: Amazon, Labour, and the Future of Logistics Work 2. Lords of the Platform: Rentier Capitalism and the Platform Economy 3. Digitalization, Automation and the Future of Globalization 4. Global Supply Chains in the Gig Economy Part II. Labour Restructuring and Platform Work 5. Thriving Small-scale Entrepreneurs or Precarious Own-account Workers? Concepts and Politics of Informal Work since the 1970s 6. A Trade Between Flexibility and Security: Examining the Evolution of Non-Standard Work Arrangements and Ways to Rebalance the Position of Platform Workers in the Labour Exchange 7. Adjunct and Precarious Teaching Labour in Higher Education 8. New Forms of Agency or Atomization? Platform Workers’ Power Resources and Fragmentation Part III. Global Case Studies of Platform and Informal Labour 9. Transportation Workers Mobilization against the Platform Economy: Korea 10. Cheap, fast and flexible. Processes of informalization in Asian garment manufacturing 11. Digital Labour Platforms and the Uberization of Work in Portugal 12. Piece wages in US and Canadian Agriculture as Political Technologies of Labour Control: Implications for the Wider Platform Economy 13. Delivering (In)justice: Contestations within India’s digital food delivery platforms. 14. India’s Platform Economy Experience: A Site for the Commodification-Decommodification Dynamic 15. Entrepreneurship, Informality and the Platform Economy: the Resignification of precariousness in Brazil Part IV. Migration, and Platform Work 16. Contactless delivery: Migrant experiences in the platform economy 17. With this Ring, with this Striving: Love, Marriage, and Labor in the Platform Economy in Southeast Asia 18. Fragmented Labour, Punctuated Temporalities: Spatio-temporal Precarisation among Student Migrant Workers

About the Author :
Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, NY, USA.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781000823035
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Research Companion
  • ISBN-10: 1000823032
  • Publisher Date: 26 Dec 2022
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics


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