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Riders, Rights and Collective Action

In: Beyond Human Resources - Research Paths Towards a New Understanding of Workforce Management Within Organizations

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  • Holm-Detlev Kohler

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The aim of this chapter is to develop a conceptual framework for analysing the collective actions and organisational practices of delivery and transportation gig-workers, building on Rosa Luxemburg's colonisation concept and on the power resources theory employed in current trade union analysis. The empirical bases are recent surveys and studies on platform work, the analysis of websites and social media communities for the collective action of platform workers and conversations with platform activists in several European countries. The specific characteristics of platform workers' collective actions and organisational practices are examined with a view to identifying their potential and the opportunities they afford in the light of different trade union power resources.

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  • Holm-Detlev Kohler, 2021. "Riders, Rights and Collective Action," Chapters, in: Gonzalo Sanchez & Fernando Martin-Alcazar & Natalia Garcia-Carbonell (ed.), Beyond Human Resources - Research Paths Towards a New Understanding of Workforce Management Within Organizations, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:227924
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.96178
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    Keywords

    sociology of platform work; platform economy; power sources; employment relations;
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    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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