[P2P-F] Fwd: Work Organisation, Labour & Organisation Call for Papers: The Algorithm and The City

Wed Oct 9 11:53:53 CEST 2019

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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.

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