Silicon law of oligarchy: patterns of member participation in the decision-making of platform cooperatives

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-10-08 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad058

Damion J Bunders

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Abstract

Platform cooperatives that are owned and governed by gig workers themselves have been proposed as a silver bullet to improve these workers’ influence on organizational decision-making. However, they remain relatively rare compared with dominant investor-owned platforms. Traditionally, worker cooperatives strive for alternative organizing based on the ideal of workplace democracy but are often faced with unequal participation by members in decision-making processes. To test for participation inequalities, this study used survey data (n = 418) from a network of four platform worker cooperatives in Italy. The results show that members with lower affective commitment towards their cooperative and less social capital among other members are less likely to participate, but that there is no effect of cooperative size and human capital.

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寡头硅定律:平台合作社成员参与决策的模式

由零工工人自己拥有和管理的平台合作社被认为是提高这些工人对组织决策影响的灵丹妙药。然而，与占主导地位的投资者所有平台相比，它们仍然相对罕见。传统上，工人合作社在工作场所民主理想的基础上争取其他组织，但往往面临成员在决策过程中的不平等参与。为了检验参与不平等，本研究使用了来自意大利四个平台工人合作社网络的调查数据(n = 418)。结果表明，对合作的情感承诺越低、其他成员的社会资本越少的成员参与合作的可能性越低，但合作规模和人力资本对参与合作的影响不显著。

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