Platform Capitalism: What’s at Stake for Workers?

By Steven P. Vallas. New Labor Forum, 2018

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What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (2020, background): “The issue, in this view, is not so much technology but a broad socioeconomic shift that dismantles many of the labor market shelters workers had previously enjoyed (Kalleberg & Vallas 2018, Vallas 2019).”
Algorithmic Control in Platform Food Delivery Work (2019, background): “The explosion of “platform capitalism” (Srnicek 2016) is part of a broader transition from standard employment protections toward “flexible” work arrangements, including contract, temporary, and part-time employment, in the United States and elsewhere since the 1970s (Beck 2000; Kalleberg and Vallas”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, methodology): “Our use of labor process theory leads us to highlight some of the negative effects that algorithmic controlmay have onworkers (see also Chai & Scully, 2018; Griesbach, Reich, Elliott-Negri, & Milkman, 2019; Vallas, 2019; Vallas & Kovalainen, 2019).”