The aim of this article is to make a contribution to understanding platform work in a comprehensive and geographically situated way, and thus to consider comprehensive responses to its precarising character. The author proposes an analytical framework in which platform work is the result of the articulation of three dimensions: technological-organisational, institutional and ideological. In turn, this framework is applied in depth to a case study: delivery platform work in Argentina. To that end a mixed methodology is employed which combines in-depth interviews and surveys responded to by 401 delivery workers.
This article identifies and interprets the continuities and transformations in the material reproduction mechanisms of a union at different historical stages, under the hypothesis that the union economy is vital to understand the dynamics and strategies of trade unions. We use the concept of union material reproduction mechanisms and we analyze three dimensions: the level of complexity, its effects on organizational and patrimonial structure and its relationship with the workers political economy. We perform a case study in depth: the guild of Luz y Fuerza Capital Federal (lyfcf) of Argentina in three historical stages (1943-1976, 1976-1992, and 1992-2003). This article concludes that there is an analytical vacuum about union economy, and that this dimension is relevant in any union building and strategies defining.
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