Platform Cooperativism. Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy

By Trebor Scholz. 2016

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What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (2020, background): “This perspective finds its clearest expression in arguments advocating for platform cooperativism (Scholz 2016b, chapter 7), discussed in the section titled Platforms and the Sharing Economy: An Agenda for Research.”
Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods (2017, background): “…pressures to transact with cooperative building societies and cooperative supermarkets instead of privately held banks and shops, there could similarly be movements to work with cooperatively managed platforms (see, for instance, the pioneering work done by Scholtz, 2016a, b, in this area).”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, background): “Scholars have suggested that increasing the number of platform cooperatives could help promote algorithmic transparency by addressing someof the concerns relating to opacity, bias, and profit extraction emerging through algorithmic control (Scholz, 2016).”
Mapping out the sharing economy: A configurational approach to sharing business modeling (2017, background): “new forms of organizing around the sharing economy referred to as platform cooperatives (Scholz, 2016).”
Should we take the gig economy seriously? (2017, background): “There are already some examples of what Scholz (2016) calls ‘platform cooperatives’: organisations that mimic the apps of the leading platforms and marry these to worker-friendly ownership structures.”