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Building labour power in the platform economy: a comparative analysis of worker struggles in German and Norwegian food and grocery delivery
- Abstract:
- This study undertakes a comparative analysis of delivery workers’ struggles in Norway and Germany. Through the theoretical lens of the power resources approach, we analyse how delivery workers in Berlin and Oslo combine associational, structural, institutional, coalitional and discursive power resources, responding to different institutionalised frameworks of industrial relations. We make three contributions to debates on worker agency and resistance in the platform economy. First, we show that delivery workers need to actively combine different power resources to overcome barriers to organising and exercising structural power, resulting from platforms’ model of work organisation. Second, we highlight the role of institutional contexts in shaping workers’ collective organising strategies. Finally, our analysis stresses that the power resources that food delivery workers have built are often contested and circumvented by counter-practices from the platform companies.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/ntwe.12312
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+ The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0286hg268
- Programme:
- Trade Union Research Programme
+ Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/04pz7b180
- Programme:
- Berlin University Alliance
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- New Technology, Work and Employment More from this journal
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 242-264
- Publication date:
- 2024-10-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-10-11
- DOI:
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1468-005X
- ISSN:
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0268-1072
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2055451
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pubs:2055451
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2024-11-08
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- Copyright holder:
- López et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2024
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- © 2024 The Author(s). New Technology, Work and Employment published by Brian Towers (BRITOW) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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