---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Pluto Journals Ltd. <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:56 PM Subject: Work Organisation, Labour & Organisation Call for Papers: The Algorithm and The City To: <[email protected]> Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation welcomes contributions that address the impacts of digitalisation and algorithmic management on cities. View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/00b3aca24a69/work-organisation-labour-organisation-call-for-papers-the-algorithm-and-the-city?e=ede0c16532> *Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation's Call for Papers: 'The Algorithm and the City'* *You are receiving this email because of your past association with Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Please accept our apologies if you think this email has been sent to you in error. If you wish to update your preferences please click here <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/profile?u=946484bd874ae7f80bb5b6945&id=9efe5ea355&e=ede0c16532>, or to unsubscribe from our email list please click here <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=946484bd874ae7f80bb5b6945&id=9efe5ea355&e=ede0c16532&c=fcd62ef317>.* The use of online platforms to organise the supply of services has major implications for the way that the labour involved in creating and delivering these services is managed. Recent research has shown an exponential growth in platform labour, which doubled in the UK between 2016 and 2019 with an equally rapid spread of platform management practices to other sectors of the economy (Huws, Spencer & Coates, 2019). This development has been paralleled by a growth in online shopping and in the use of platforms such as Airbnb for renting accommodation as well as the spread of schemes such as bike sharing or car sharing, also run by online platforms. As well as having major implications for urban populations in general (Carta, 2018), and the working conditions and job security of the platform workforce in particular (see for example Wood et al, 2019; Leonardi et al. 2019; Van Doorn, 2017; Prassl, 2018; Munn, 2017), these developments are also transforming cities in other respects. For example the need to speed up ‘last mile’ delivery of goods (Altenried, 2019) is resulting in a substitution of smaller inner city redistribution points for large suburban warehouses (Barbier, Cuny & Raimbault, 2019), and the extension of food delivery networks, driven by the algorithms used by platforms such as Deliveroo and Uber Eats, is leading to the development of ‘dark kitchens’ situated at a distance from their parent restaurants but designed to be close to potential customers (Hayward, 2019), in the process reconfiguring urban space and changing the character of neighbourhoods. Such developments do not just affect the skills and working conditions of the workers directly managed by online platforms; they also have major implications for workers in other sectors affected by these developments, including employees in the hospitality, tourism, retail and transport industries. *Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation **welcomes contributions that address the impacts of digitalisation and algorithmic management on cities. To read the full call for papers, please see full specification on the WOLG website <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=946484bd874ae7f80bb5b6945&id=aa9ababd05&e=ede0c16532>.* Articles should be relevant to the aims of our journal <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=946484bd874ae7f80bb5b6945&id=8ecc99a47e&e=ede0c16532> and submission guidelines can be found here <https://plutojournals.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=946484bd874ae7f80bb5b6945&id=8113bbf4f8&e=ede0c16532>. 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