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How place and space matter to union organizing in the platform economy

In: A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy

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  • Benjamin Herr
  • Philip Schörpf
  • Jörg Flecker

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New forms of work organization associated with platform labour challenge the notion of the traditional workplace, the employment relationship and the given institutional setting of a nation state. Such conventional spatial and institutional 'containers', where work traditionally takes place, are clearly losing importance in the platform economy. In particular, online platform labour seems to be 'placeless', which is not actually the case because the work takes place somewhere, its spatial distribution is not arbitrary and employment is influenced by local and national conditions. Location-based platform work, on the other hand, is not fully limited to the local scale not least because many platforms are multinational corporations. While place and space still matter the platform economy clearly has an impact on labour relations by, among other things, altering spatial structures.

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  • Benjamin Herr & Philip Schörpf & Jörg Flecker, 2021. "How place and space matter to union organizing in the platform economy," Chapters, in: Jan Drahokoupil & Kurt Vandaele (ed.), A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy, chapter 7, pages 112-127, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Markus Griesser & Martin Gruber-Risak & Benjamin Herr & Leonhard Plank & Laura Vogel, 2023. "Faire Arbeit in der österreichischen Plattformökonomie?," Working Paper Reihe der AK Wien - Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 242, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik.

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