Street-level experiences of the ‘platform society’

I love this series of portraits by Rest of World called Life as a Gig Worker. While a political economy perspective of platform labor tends to focus only on harms and exploitation, this more ethnog…

Michiel de Lange
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Looking forward to 2 days of thinking about platforms, labor and social reproduction and thankful for the brilliant introductory thoughts of @daliagebrial (maybe not right handle?)
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Tonight’s labor focused reading is The Warehouse by Alessandro Delfanti, who interviewed Amazon warehouse workers in Italy, Spain, Canada, Germany, and the US. I had the pleasure of reading it in draft form and it’s great to see it in print from Pluto Press! #platformlabor #amazon #logistics