Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.1.0172
Apicella, Hildebrandt
{"title":"Divided we stand: reasons for and against strike participation in Amazon's German distribution centres","authors":"Apicella, Hildebrandt","doi":"10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.1.0172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.1.0172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"177 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72534659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0057
Logan
{"title":"The new union avoidance internationalism","authors":"Logan","doi":"10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85322704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0155
D. Leonardi, A. Murgia, Marco Briziarelli, E. Armano
This article explores the notion of logistical connectivity as a twofold and ambivalent lens. On one hand, connectivity can be seen as a pervasive logistical tool for labour exploitation and surveillance. On the other, it opens up opportunities to establish new kinds of social relations and forms of worker organisation. The analysis draws on empirical data gathered during 2016 in Turin, a city in northern Italy, during mobilisations by Foodora workers. The findings show that logistical connectivity constitutes an unprecedented form of pervasive control, but – under certain conditions – can be shaken and reversed by workers and become a mode of mobilisation and
{"title":"The ambivalence of logistical connectivity: a co-research with Foodora Riders","authors":"D. Leonardi, A. Murgia, Marco Briziarelli, E. Armano","doi":"10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0155","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the notion of logistical connectivity as a twofold and ambivalent lens. On one hand, connectivity can be seen as a pervasive logistical tool for labour exploitation and surveillance. On the other, it opens up opportunities to establish new kinds of social relations and forms of worker organisation. The analysis draws on empirical data gathered during 2016 in Turin, a city in northern Italy, during mobilisations by Foodora workers. The findings show that logistical connectivity constitutes an unprecedented form of pervasive control, but – under certain conditions – can be shaken and reversed by workers and become a mode of mobilisation and","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89068945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0015
Neilson, Notley
{"title":"Data centres as logistical facilities: Singapore and the emergence of production topologies","authors":"Neilson, Notley","doi":"10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90759807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0062
Ennaji, Bignami
{"title":"Logistical tools for refugees and undocumented migrants: smartphones and social media in the city of Fès","authors":"Ennaji, Bignami","doi":"10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"201 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74355914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0130
Bottalico
{"title":"Towards the mapping of port labour systems and conflicts across Europe: a literature review","authors":"Bottalico","doi":"10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78337190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0114
Moritz Altenried
In recent years, the last mile of delivery has become a crucial focus of logistical operations in urban contexts due to the rise of online shopping and the spread of platforms including Amazon to Foodora, Deliveroo and others. This article claims that the increasing importance and time-sensitivity of delivery reconfigures both urban spaces and labour relations. Through an analysis of labour relations in different segments of last mile delivery it argues that we are observing profound changes driven most importantly by digital technologies and the hyper-flexible employment relations facilitated by online platforms. Labour on the last mile is increasingly characterised by intense time pressure, standardisation, algorithmic management and digitally enabled surveillance on the one hand, and platform-driven precarisation and flexibilisation on the other. These developments can also be observed in other areas of logistical labour and across different industries. Hence, labour on the last mile might be understood as a specific but important expression of a broader tendency of the transformation of labour in digital capitalism. At the same time, the new importance of the last mile also signals changes in the production of urban space in the context of platform-driven forms of production, circulation and consumption, that are discussed as an emerging logistical urbanism.
{"title":"On the last mile: logistical urbanism and the transformation of labour","authors":"Moritz Altenried","doi":"10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0114","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the last mile of delivery has become a crucial focus of logistical operations in urban contexts due to the rise of online shopping and the spread of platforms including Amazon to Foodora, Deliveroo and others. This article claims that the increasing importance and time-sensitivity of delivery reconfigures both urban spaces and labour relations. Through an analysis of labour relations in different segments of last mile delivery it argues that we are observing profound changes driven most importantly by digital technologies and the hyper-flexible employment relations facilitated by online platforms. Labour on the last mile is increasingly characterised by intense time pressure, standardisation, algorithmic management and digitally enabled surveillance on the one hand, and platform-driven precarisation and flexibilisation on the other. These developments can also be observed in other areas of logistical labour and across different industries. Hence, labour on the last mile might be understood as a specific but important expression of a broader tendency of the transformation of labour in digital capitalism. At the same time, the new importance of the last mile also signals changes in the production of urban space in the context of platform-driven forms of production, circulation and consumption, that are discussed as an emerging logistical urbanism.","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"156 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73229283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0007
Dujarier
{"title":"Vertical division of labour: a sociology of the work of remote organisers","authors":"Dujarier","doi":"10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73017327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0078
Jacobson, Hogan
{"title":"Retrofitted data centres: a new world in the shell of the old","authors":"Jacobson, Hogan","doi":"10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.2.0078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74998773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0009
Benvegnú, Cuppini, Frapporti, Milesi, Pirone
{"title":"Logistical gazes: introduction to a special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","authors":"Benvegnú, Cuppini, Frapporti, Milesi, Pirone","doi":"10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/WORKORGALABOGLOB.13.1.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52161,"journal":{"name":"Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89502928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}