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Article Dans Une Revue Economic and Labour Relations Review Année : 2024

David against Goliath: from riders’ protest to platform cooperativism

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Abstract Faced with platforms such as Uber, riders are resisting individually and organising actions such as Riders X Derechos in Spain. Some of these ‘new proletarians’ have even organised themselves into cooperatives. To the global utopia of investor-owned platforms, platform cooperativism opposes the utopia of delivery without exploitation or carbon emissions through local cooperatives owned by riders. Based on the case study of the Mensakas cooperative in Barcelona, this ethnography analyses the link between riders’ protests and cooperative platforms. It questions the concrete effects of ‘counter-platform politics’ and the relationship between politics and labour. It also examines the strategies of intercooperation in the ‘cyclelogistical’ sector to understand the institutional, social, and political conditions that foster the ‘re-embeddedness’ of the bike delivery market.
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hal-04592794 , version 1 (06-06-2024)

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Arthur Guichoux. David against Goliath: from riders’ protest to platform cooperativism. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2024, 34 (4), pp.733-752. ⟨10.1017/elr.2023.48⟩. ⟨hal-04592794⟩
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