The fight against platform capitalism : : an inquiry into the global struggles of the gig economy / / Jamie Woodcock.
So far, platform work has been an important laboratory for capital. Management techniques, like the use of algorithms, are being tested with a view to exporting across the global economy and it is argued that automation is undermining workers' agency. Although the contractual trick of self-empl...
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