Prácticas organizativas de trabajadores de plataformas de reparto. Un análisis desde la teoría de los recursos de poder

Menéndez, Nicolás Diana; Haidar, Julieta; Arias, Cora

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“…In other words, this profile would not tend to resort to unionization as a collective strategy for resolving labor conflicts and improving worker conditions. In short, due to the nature of this activity, where replacement is easy and the company can cancel orders without the possibility of a response, this sector lacks effective bargaining power, which leads us to think about the difficulty of unionization (Diana Menendez et al 2023).…”

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Are You Really Your Own Boss? Flexi-Vulnerability and False Consciousness of Autonomy in the Digital Labor Culture of Riders

López-Martínez,

Haz-Gómez,

Real Deus

2023

Social Sciences

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In the European Union, over 28 million people work through more than 500 available digital platforms, and it is estimated that by 2025, this number will reach 43 million. However, we lack up-to-date and sufficient data on employed individuals, as platforms practice a policy of non-disclosure of data. This paper focuses on the so-called location-based platforms and specifically the figure of the rider, understood as the individual who, through a commercial or labor relationship with a company, performs tasks such as the delivery of goods to end customers. By conducting 143 surveys and 15 in-depth interviews with riders, we identified a series of characteristics that allow us to analyze this archetype of contemporary work–digital relations and delve deeper into relevant questions related to this figure, which have to do with the modality linked to the performance of their activity (self-employed or salaried), the levels of job satisfaction with respect to their activity, or the strategies for work or personal conciliation. Specifically, we focus on those discourses that refer to the characteristics of flexibility and autonomy inherent to this type of work, analyzing a heterogeneity of discourses that explain, on the one hand, a situation of precariousness and, in other cases, a job opportunity and a self-employment strategy, introducing the idea of flexi-vulnerability understood as a concept that captures the dual nature of flexibility and vulnerability experienced by individuals who work as self-employed in the so-called “gig” economy.

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Section: Lack Of Collective or Union Action (Homo Homini Lupus)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Are You Really Your Own Boss? Flexi-Vulnerability and False Consciousness of Autonomy in the Digital Labor Culture of Riders

López-Martínez,

Haz-Gómez,

Real Deus

2023

Social Sciences

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“Trabajar en bicicleta es complicado”. Identidades Rider/Delivery en Argentina, España y Uruguay

Piñeiro Aguiar,

López-Martínez

2024

Rev. Mus. Antrop.

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En este trabajo se presenta un estudio de caso comparado entre ciudades españolas y rioplatenses en relación a los discursos y prácticas de trabajadores/as en diversas compañías de reparto de comida a domicilio. Los escenarios para las mismas tienen que ver con puntos de reunión y esperas de los/las riders y el objetivo fundamental es analizar sus narrativas, la relación de las mismas con la configuración de heterogéneas formas de identidad sociolaboral y cómo todo ello opera en un campo de trabajo urbano, móvil, itinerante, conflictivo y precario. Se trata de un trabajo de campo que comenzó en 2021 en las ciudades españolas de Coruña y Murcia, y en Mar del Plata (Argentina) y Montevideo (Uruguay), realizando observación, entrevistas semi-estructuradas y encuestas. Entre los principales resultados figura una reflexión sobre las identidades que tienen que ver, por una parte, con el individualismo y por otra con las relaciones de compañerismo encontradas en el campo; una explicación de las repercusiones estéticas y tecnológicas que condicionan la entrada y (re)producción a/de las dinámicas laborales; y una reflexión en torno a procesos de inseguridad que repercuten en las subjetividades de los/las trabajadores/as de reparto. En la parte final abordamos una lectura en relación al significado de esta “identidad rider”, ya avanzado en otros contextos bajo la figura de “Homo Rider”.

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Prácticas organizativas de trabajadores de plataformas de reparto. Un análisis desde la teoría de los recursos de poder

Cited by 2 publications

References 20 publications

Are You Really Your Own Boss? Flexi-Vulnerability and False Consciousness of Autonomy in the Digital Labor Culture of Riders

Are You Really Your Own Boss? Flexi-Vulnerability and False Consciousness of Autonomy in the Digital Labor Culture of Riders

“Trabajar en bicicleta es complicado”. Identidades Rider/Delivery en Argentina, España y Uruguay

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