Screen LibraryRiding for Deliveroo : resistance in the new economy /
"What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out. This mix of first-hand testimony and analysis is essential for anyone wishin...
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Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out. This mix of first-hand testimony and analysis is essential for anyone wishing to understand class struggle in platform capitalism"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 198 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781509535507 1509535500 9781509535514 1509535519 |
| Index Number: | HD8039 |
| CLC: | F249.561.1 |
| Call Number: | F249.561.1/C229 |
| Contents: |
Intro; Front Matter; Preface: London, August 2016; 1 Introduction; Workers and Bosses; Workers' Inquiry; Class Composition; Why Deliveroo?; Notes; 2 The Job; Getting the Job; An Average Shift; Notes; 3 The System of Control; Algorithmic Management; Work Intensification; Black Box; The Means of Subsistence; 'Independent Contractor' Status; The Menace of the Workers; Notes; 4 A Short History of Precarious Militants; Dockers; Builders; Notes; 5 Workers and Customers; Migration; Gender; The Customers; Notes; 6 The Strikes; The Rebel Roo; The First Meeting; The February Strike; A Second Strike Invisible OrganizationPolitics; UberEats; Notes; 7 Looking Forward; Fully Automated Luxury Food Delivery?; Progressive Futurism; Platform Cooperativism or Workers' Control?; The Question of Power; Notes; 8 A New Wave; London, September 2018; Everywhere, October 2018; The Network Model; Notes; 9 Conclusion; The Politics of Parties and the Conditions of Struggle; Birdsong; Notes; Index; End User License Agreement. |