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Mobilizing against the odds. Solidarity in action in the platform economy

Author(s)
Della Porta, Donatella  
Chesta, Riccardo Emilio  
Cini, Lorenzo  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/24717
Date Issued
2022-05-10
Date Available
2023-08-29T08:50:09Z
Abstract
The relationship between working conditions and the development of collective solidarity has been much debated in sociology over the past century. The article contributes to this debate by exploring two recent cases of worker mobilization in the context of the Italian platform economy, concerning Amazon delivery drivers and food delivery couriers. Both groups developed specific identity frames in the course of their mobilizations in four Italian cities between 2018 and 2019, which differed significantly. The article explains those differences through a theoretical framework that bridges social movement and labor studies. While Amazon delivery drivers adopted a mobilizing strategy aimed narrowly at improving their conditions as Amazon workers, food delivery couriers elaborated a broader identity framing as precarious platform workers. The difference can be connected to specific features of labor organization, in particular regarding the diverse conditions met by digital innovation in the two sectors: While Amazon drivers belong to a technologically advanced segment (e-commerce) of a traditional sector (logistics), food delivery couriers are part of a new, platform-based sector. The article shows how such sectoral variation affected ways of collectively organizing, forms of solidarity and identity framing.
Sponsorship
European Commission
Other Sponsorship
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action
COntesting GOvernance by NUmbers: The Mobilizations of Food Delivery Couriers across Europe in Time of the Pandemic (COGONU)
Open Access funding provided by Scuola Normale Superiore within the CRUICARE Agreement
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Springer
Journal
Berliner Journal für Soziologie
Volume
32
Start Page
213
End Page
241
Copyright (Published Version)
2022 the Authors
Subjects

Collective identity

Digital workers

Labor movement

Labor process

Platform economy

DOI
10.1007/s11609-022-00471-z
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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