Spatial politics in the digital realm: the logistics/precarity dialectics and Deliveroo's tertiary space struggles
2019
33
5
823-840
digitalisation ; precarious employment ; crowd work ; logistics ; digital economy
Economics
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2018.1519583
English
Bibliogr.
"This paper uses the case of mobilization of delivery workers from digital platform Deliveroo in order to illustrate the production of space of resistance, which develops as a result of the tension of two emerging factors shaping the digital labour realm: logistics and precarity. On the one hand, I consider how logistics in the digital capitalist context produce precarious workers whose ICT-driven connectivity and flexibility responds to the logistical imperatives of effective commodities circulation. On the other hand, taking advantage of the tech-savvy precarious position they were hired for, Deliveroo workers display the capability to strategically cut across “abstract” and “differential” space, and therefore re-territorialize a third space dimension where digital labour can organize and antagonize digital capitalism."
Digital
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