Geographies of the New Economy: Critical Reflections

Daniels, Peter; Bradshaw, Michael; Beaverstock, Jon; Leyshon, Andrew

doi:10.1080/13673882.2006.9680845

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“…Our demarcation of domains of circulation and platform types also excludes what might be described as 'mainstream' e-commerce which arrived with much fanfare during the 'new economy' or 'dot-com' boom of the late 1990s (Feng et al, 2001; Thrift, 2001; Zook, 2005. There are important continuities from ecommerce into platform capitalism, including an intermediary logic, the catalytic role of venture capital in funding new start-ups, and the urgent need to quickly 'scale-up' operations to make a business viable (see below and, for e-commerce, Daniels, et al, 2007). But, for the most part, the web sites and mobile apps of e-commerce typically intermediate exchange in two-sided markets -either business-to-consumer (B2C) or business-to-business (B2B) -and provide an additional 'channel' (alongside 'bricks and mortar' retail outlets and telesales) through which established firms market their products and services.…”

Section: The Intermediary Logic Of the Platformmentioning

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Platform capitalism: The intermediation and capitalisation of digital economic circulation

2017

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A new form of digital economic circulation has emerged, wherein ideas, knowledge, labour and use rights for otherwise idle assets move between geographically distributed but connected and interactive online communities. Such circulation is apparent across a number of digital economic ecologies, including social media, online marketplaces, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and other manifestations of the so-called ‘sharing economy’. Prevailing accounts deploy concepts such as ‘co-production’, ‘prosumption’ and ‘peer-to-peer’ to explain digital economic circulation as networked exchange relations characterised by their disintermediated, collaborative and democratising qualities. Building from the neologism of platform capitalism, we place ‘the platform’ – understood as a distinct mode of socio-technical intermediary and business arrangement that is incorporated into wider processes of capitalisation – at the centre of the critical analysis of digital economic circulation. To create multi-sided markets and coordinate network effects, platforms enrol users through a participatory economic culture and mobilise code and data analytics to compose immanent infrastructures. Platform intermediation is also nested in the ex-post construction of a replicable business model. Prioritising rapid up-scaling and extracting revenues from circulations and associated data trails, the model performs the structure of venture capital investment which capitalises on the potential of platforms to realise monopoly rents.

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Section: The Intermediary Logic Of the Platformmentioning

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2017

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“…Most mature economies have undergone dramatic structural changes in production and jobs involving deindustrialisation (the decline in manufacturing) and tertiarisation (the increase of service sector activities). Technological change has had an immense impact on employment and industrial restructuring, as a large body of literature in economic geography has discussed; for example, under the 'New Economy' label (Daniels et al, 2007). Technology is profoundly changing not only global production networks and macro employment structures (Berger and Frey, 2016) but also, on the micro scale, how, where and when work is being done by the individual worker.…”

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Spatial and temporal segmenting of urban workplaces: The gendering of multi-locational working

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Existing urban research has focused on gender differences in commuting patterns to and from homes, but has paid little attention to the gendered diversity in the spatiotemporal patterns of work. The increase in remote working and information and communications technology (ICT) work has been emphasised, but at the cost of exploring the full range of workplaces and multilocational working observed in urban areas. This article develops a new classificatory system to analyse the spatiotemporal patterns of work in European cities using the 2015 6th European Working Conditions Survey. We identify 12 distinct spatiotemporal work patterns of full-time workers and investigate gender differences across these patterns against the backdrop of occupation, industrial sector, employment status, household composition and ICT use. Findings show that women are far more likely to be restricted to only working at the employer/business premises while men have more varied and complex spatiotemporal patterns of work. Multi-locational working rather than working at one workplace is a largely male phenomenon. Working exclusively at home is still a rarity, but combinations with employer premises and other workplaces are more common. We conclude that workplace research has been blinkered by narrow concerns of advances in mobile technologies and has been blind to the pervasive effects of spatiotemporal divisions in the working lives of men and women. The methodological and theoretical implications of this new perspective on workplaces for urban development and research are discussed.

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“…While change is the very essence of the capitalist system from the industrial revolution to the present day, the rapidity of change in the last 20 years has fundamentally altered previous forms of employment practice, and particularly, the relationship between capital and labour (Herod 2007). The so‐called rise of the “new economy” is popularly characterised as the rise and dominance of the service economy in developed economies, the development of ICT (information and communication technologies) and its consequent ability to transform the world of work particularly with regards financial markets and new media, and new and flexible production methods where the “networked firm” replaces once highly vertically integrated businesses (Castells 1996; Daniels et al 2007). The world's global cities perhaps exemplify the “new economy” at its most stark, the vast inequalities demonstrated by the growing income gap between the rich and the poor, the replacement of a mixed economy with that of a financial and service economy and new migrant divisions of labour based on ethnicity and nationality replacing sectors of employment once occupied by “native” workers (May et al 2007; McDowell, Batnitzky and Dyer 2007; Sassen 2000).…”

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Geographies of Isolation: How Workers (Don’t) Access Support for Problems at Work

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This paper is concerned with the social and spatial processes adopted by workers who face problems at work. Using interview data with minority ethnic workers in three local communities in London, the paper explores the mechanism people use to seek help and advice and what resources are available from local community organisations. Key findings suggest that many workers, both unionised and non-unionised find themselves isolated and unable to access the support they need.

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Geographies of the New Economy: Critical Reflections

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Platform capitalism: The intermediation and capitalisation of digital economic circulation

Platform capitalism: The intermediation and capitalisation of digital economic circulation

Spatial and temporal segmenting of urban workplaces: The gendering of multi-locational working

Geographies of Isolation: How Workers (Don’t) Access Support for Problems at Work

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