Worker Organisation in the UK: A Taxonomy of Struggle in the 'Gig Economy'

英国工人组织：“零工经济”中的斗争分类

基本信息

批准号：
2435415
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2435415
关键词：
Worker Organisation UK Taxonomy Struggle

项目摘要

A shift has occurred in labour markets towards types of digital platformmediated work. With increasingly more people working in the 'gigeconomy', trends that challenge traditional meanings of employment andworkplaces are becoming highly significant.Many studies have discussed working conditions within the gig economy(Gandini 2019, Cant 2019). It has also been observed how workers in thissector are engaged in new forms of political organising (Woodcock 2014,Wood & Lehdonvirta 2019). However, this previous research has focusedon limited, or non-UK case studies. There has been no taxonomy of thetypes of worker organisation happening now in the UK. There is a questionabout how these new forms of political organising relate to the social andworking conditions experienced in this sector.Operaismo, a current in Marxism, offers a potentially fruitful way oftheorising the relationship between social and workplace conditions andforms of political organisation in the gig economy. Operaismo'stheoretical innovation was 'class composition analysis'. This form ofanalysis posits a close relationship between workplace conditions andforms of political organisation. This study will examine the social andworkplace conditions present in the gig economy; it will further examinehow these conditions produce new forms of political organisation. Theresult will be a taxonomy of political organisation happening in the UK gigeconomy.

劳动力市场已发生向数字平台中介工作类型的转变。随着越来越多的人在“零工经济”中工作，挑战就业和工作场所传统含义的趋势变得非常重要。许多研究讨论了零工经济中的工作条件（Gandini 2019，Cant 2019）。人们还观察到该部门的工人如何参与新形式的政治组织（Woodcock 2014，Wood & Lehdonvirta 2019）。然而，之前的研究集中于有限的或非英国的案例研究。英国目前还没有对工人组织类型进行分类。存在的一个问题是，这些新的政治组织形式如何与该领域所经历的社会和工作条件相关联。Operaismo，马克思主义的一个潮流，提供了一种潜在富有成果的方式来理论化零工经济中社会和工作场所条件与政治组织形式之间的关系。。 Operaismo的理论创新是“阶级构成分析”。这种分析形式假定工作场所条件与政治组织形式之间存在密切关系。这项研究将探讨零工经济中存在的社会和工作场所条件；它将进一步研究这些条件如何产生新形式的政治组织。其结果将是对英国巨型经济体中的政治组织进行分类。