Journal |
Inequalities
Journal issue | Digital Platform Labour and (New) Inequalities
Research Article | Platform Capitalism
Platform Capitalism
Experimental Laboratories and the Struggles for the Regulation
Abstract
This article will address the recent configurations of the world of labour in the era of informational financial capitalism. More specifically, it will analyse the emergence of and conflicts surrounding so-called uberised work, outlining the more general determinations that contributed to its emergence, approaching uberisation as a laboratory for experimenting with labour and highlighting its similarities with the protoform of capitalism. The article will also present selected statements taken from interviews with delivery riders and drivers, as well as secondary data from important research conducted on the subject. Finally, it will discuss the institutional clashes surrounding the regulation and deregulation of uberisation.
Submitted: Nov. 30, 2024 | Accepted: March 26, 2025 | Published May 20, 2025 | Language: en
Keywords Uberised work • Class struggles • Platform capitalism • Working class • Regulation
Copyright © 2025 Ricardo Antunes, Marco Antonio Gonsales de Oliveira, Murillo Van Der Laan. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/INQ/3035-0395/2025/02/001
