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Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy - Softcover

Cant, Callum

 
9781509535514: Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509535519 ISBN 13: 9781509535514
Verlag: Polity, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out.
 
His vivid account of the reality is grim. Workers are being tyrannised by algorithms and exploited for the profit of the few – but they are not taking it lying down. Cant reveals a transnational network of encrypted chats and informal groups which have given birth to a wave of strikes and protests. Far from being atomised individuals helpless in the face of massive tech companies, workers are tearing up the rulebook and taking back control. New developments in the workplace are combining to produce an explosive subterranean class struggle – where the stakes are high, and the risks are higher.
 
Riding for Deliveroo is the first portrait of a new generation of working class militants. Its mixture of compelling first-hand testimony and engaging analysis is essential for anyone wishing to understand class struggle in platform capitalism.

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Callum Cant is a former Deliveroo delivery worker and PhD candidate at the University of West London

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509535519
ISBN 13 
9781509535514
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
140
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