The Library
Riders on the storm : workplace solidarity among gig economy couriers in Italy and the UK
Tools
Tools
Tools
Tassinari, Arianna and Maccarrone, V. (2020) Riders on the storm : workplace solidarity among gig economy couriers in Italy and the UK. Work, Employment and Society, 34 (1). pp. 35-54. doi:10.1177/0950017019862954 ISSN 0950-0170.
|
PDF
WRAP-Riders-storm-workplace-solidarity-economy-couriers-Tassinari-2019.pdf - Accepted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (711Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019862954
Abstract
In light of the individualisation, dispersal and pervasive monitoring that characterise work in the ‘gig economy’, the development of solidarity among gig workers could be expected to be unlikely. However, numerous recent episodes of gig workers’ mobilisation require reconsideration of these assumptions. This article contributes to the debate about potentials and obstacles for solidarity in the changing world of work by showing the processes through which workplace solidarity among gig workers developed in two cases of mobilisation of food delivery platform couriers in the UK and Italy. Through the framework of labour process theory, the article identifies the sources of antagonism in the app-mediated model of work organisation and the factors that facilitated and hindered the consolidation of active solidarity and the emergence of collective action among gig workers. The article emphasises the centrality of workers’ agential practices in overcoming constraints to solidarity and collective action, and the diversity of forms through which solidarity can be expressed in hostile work contexts.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Multi-sided platform businesses, Multi-sided platform businesses -- United Kingdom, Multi-sided platform businesses -- Italy, Collective labor agreements, Collective labor agreements -- United Kingdom, Collective labor agreements-- Italy | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Work, Employment and Society | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0950-0170 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 February 2020 | |||||||||
| Dates: |
|
|||||||||
| Volume: | 34 | |||||||||
| Number: | 1 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 35-54 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0950017019862954 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Author(s), Article Title, Journal Title (Journal Volume Number and Issue Number) pp. xx-xx. Copyright © [year] (Copyright Holder). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: [DOI] | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 June 2019 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 July 2019 | |||||||||
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
