Will Trade Unions Survive in the Platform Economy? Emerging Patterns of Platform Workerss Collective Voice and Representation in Europe

Vandaele, Kurt

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“…For example, the trade union 3F has negotiated the world's first collective agreement in the platform economy with the Danish online platform, Hilfr.dk, which offers cleaning services. The platforms' freelance workers are reclassified as 'employees' once they have worked at least 100 hours of work, which provides them with higher wages and social protection (Vandaele, 2018 Strengthening tax-financed mechanisms to guarantee a social protection floor for all Non-contributory social protection schemes, financed by general taxation, are key to closing coverage gaps and ensuring at least a basic level of protection for everyone, including those who are not covered or not sufficiently covered by contributory schemes, in accordance with the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202).…”

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Ensuring universal social protection for the future of work

Behrendt

Nguyen

2019

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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The debate about the future of work has sparked a debate about how to ensure that social protection systems can provide full and effective coverage for workers in all forms of employment, including 'new' ones. While some emerging work and employment arrangements may provide greater flexibility for workers and employers, they may lead to significant gaps in social protection coverage, at a time when demands on social protection systems are increasing. It is therefore necessary to strengthen and adapt social protection systems for a changing world of work. More than ever, they have a key role in preventing poverty, reducing inequality, enhancing income security and enabling workers and their families better to navigate work and life transitions. Comprehensive approaches, including contributory and non-contributory social protection mechanisms, with equitable and sustainable financing mechanisms available through taxes or contributions, stand the best chance of offering adequate social protection to all.

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Ensuring universal social protection for the future of work

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Nguyen

2019

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“…Se trata de empresas de plataformas digitales que utilizan la tecnología basada en la "administración algorítmica" para conectar a trabajadores supuestamente independientes, con consumidores y proveedores para tareas puntuales que se completan virtualmente o en persona a través de una fuerza de trabajo bajo demanda. La gestión algorítmica permite a estas empresas rastrear, controlar y disciplinar cada vez más a las personas trabajadoras, en muchos casos, eludiendo o incumpliendo las regulaciones laborales, de salud y de seguridad social (Vandaele, 2018).…”

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“…En las empresas de plataforma pueden identificarse algunos elementos propios de estrategias tradicionales del capital combinados con la "gestión algorítmica" (Lee et ál., 2015 citado por Vandaele, 2018), es por eso que surgen las siguientes interrogantes de trabajo: ¿cuáles son los elementos novedosos de estas formas de organización del trabajo?, ¿en qué medida intensifican las modalidades de explotación y precarización del trabajo? y ¿qué subjetividades laborales producen y/o reproducen?…”

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¿qué Hay De Nuevo, Viejo? Una Aproximación a Los Trabajos De Plataformas en Argentina

Menéndez

2019

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RESUMENEn este artículo se desarrolla una aproximación a los trabajos de plataformas que irrumpieron en Argentina en los últimos meses de 2018, en el contexto de un deterioro pronunciado del mercado de trabajo. Se realiza una caracterización general de estos, destacando la articulación entre viejas modalidades de tercerización y flexibilización laboral con la "gestión algorítmica" que aporta el elemento novedoso y disruptivo en la explotación de la fuerza de trabajo. El estudio está basado en entrevistas en profundidad realizadas entre agosto y diciembre de 2018 a personas trabajadoras de las dos apps de reparto más importantes en Argentina. ABSTRACT An approximation to the platform jobs that broke into Argentina in recent months within the context of a pronounced deterioration of the labor market is developed. A general characterization of them is made, highlighting the articulation between old forms of outsourcing and labor flexibilization with the "algorithmic management" that brings the new and disruptive element in the exploitation of the labor force. The study is based on in-depth interviews with employees of the two most important distribution apps.

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“…As novíssimas tecnologias como a nuvem, Big Data, aplicações móveis, geolocalização, a internet das coisas e os robots móveis, entre outros, são os principais fatores envolvidos no que é apontado como sendo uma "revolução tecnológica plena" (Valenduc e Vendramin, 2016, p. 19). Ao se articularem com novos métodos de gestão digitais, estas novíssimas tecnologias estão a transformar a organização do trabalho (Vandaele, 2018), desafiando identidades profissionais e restringindo as oportunidades de organização coletiva dos trabalhadores, o que traz implicações para a ação sindical. Esse ponto será explorado numa secção subsequente.…”

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“…Incluiu uma fase inicial de constituição e estruturação de coletivos de trabalhadores, que passou, primeiramente, pela criação de um grupo secreto do facebook -"Enfermeiros contra os 7 euros à hora" -e que levou à eleição, em plenários realizados no Porto e em Lisboa, de duas comissões informais de trabalhadores. O poder associativo ou organizacional destes trabalhadores foi portanto incrementado com base nas redes de auto comunicação de massas referidas por Vandaele (2018). Neste caso concreto, o facebook foi a ferramenta utilizada para organizar estes trabalhadores e que permitiu forjar uma identidade coletiva.…”

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Digitalização e precariedade laboral: novos desafios para o sindicalismo e os movimentos sociais no contexto português.

Estanque

Costa

Fonseca

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Séc. XXI, Rev. Ci. Soc.

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RESUMO:A crise financeira iniciada no contexto americano há uma década, ocorrida em paralelo com a digitalização da economia e do trabalho, intensificou a precariedade laboral, colocando desafios acrescidos à representação política e coletiva da classe trabalhadora. Na Europa, nomeadamente em Portugal, essas transformações e as políticas de austeridade produziram alterações significativas ao nível das relações industriais, fomentando diversas ações de protesto. A par da ação dos sindicatos, emergiram vários atores coletivos que se * Este trabalho tem o apoio financeiro da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT/MEC) através de fundos nacionais e é cofinanciado pelo FEDER através do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Inovação COMPETE 2020 no âmbito do projeto "Rebuilding trade union power in the age of austerity: a review of three sectors" 590| Século XXI, Revista de Ciências Sociais, v.8, n o 2, p.589-621, jul./dez. 2018 ISSN: 2236-6725 Digitalização e precariedade laboral: Novos desafios para o sindicalismo e os movimentos sociais no contexto português. ABSTRACT:The financial crisis that brook out in the American context one decade ago, which occurred in parallel with economy and labour digitalization, intensified labour precariousness, presented further challenges to the political and collective representation of the working class. In Europe, namely in Portugal, those transformations and austerity policies produced significant changes on the industrial relations level, fostering several protest actions. Simultaneously to trade unions action, several collective actors that can be placed within the network social movements' spectrum have emerged, underlining the relevance of collective responses in the precarious workers' case. Relying on empirical researches that fell back upon participant observation and in-depth interviews technics, in this article two case studies are presented, one confederal and other sectorial, that put in evidence the existence of cooperation and tension elements between trade unions and precarious workers' emerging organizations in the context of the struggle against labour precariousness imposed by austerity. Our goal is to identify, based on those cleavages and approximations, possible roads for the invigoration of workers' collective identity paying special attention to precarious segments, given their importance as part of the work force, while emphasizing the role of power resources and new technologies in the emergence of innovative responses.

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Will Trade Unions Survive in the Platform Economy? Emerging Patterns of Platform Workerss Collective Voice and Representation in Europe

Cited by 133 publications

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Ensuring universal social protection for the future of work

Ensuring universal social protection for the future of work

¿qué Hay De Nuevo, Viejo? Una Aproximación a Los Trabajos De Plataformas en Argentina

Digitalização e precariedade laboral: novos desafios para o sindicalismo e os movimentos sociais no contexto português.

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