'I'm my own boss ... ': Active intermediation and 'entrepreneurial' worker agency in the Australian gig-economy

被引：106
作者：
Barratt, Tom [1 ]
Goods, Caleb [2 ]
Veen, Alex [3 ]
机构：
[1] Edith Cowan Univ, Joondalup, WA, Australia
[2] Univ Western Australia, Business Sch, Nedlands, WA, Australia
[3] Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
来源：
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE | 2020年 / 52卷 / 08期
关键词：
Labour agency; labour market intermediation; gig-economy; migrant workers; LABOR GEOGRAPHIES; GLOBALIZATION; MARKETS; SPACE; STATE;
D O I：
10.1177/0308518X20914346
中图分类号：
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号：
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要：
Platform firm in the gig-economy are disrupting work as a social practice, production systems and recasting capital-labour relations. This qualitative study examines worker agency in the Australian food-delivery sector; a segment where platforms actively intermediate both product and labour markets. Within this sector, worker agency poses a potential challenge to platform-organisations; however this study reveals how these platforms' work organisation and market regulation constrain agency potential. Shaped by the work's spatio-temporal features, organisational fixes and institutional context, it is shown how food-delivery workers, transiently attached to the labour market, predominantly engage in 'entrepreneurial agency' - a low-level agency expression aimed at materially improving individual conditions and aligning with, rather than challenging, platforms' business models.
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页码：1643 / 1661
页数：19
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