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Geographies of the Platform Economy

By Mário Vale

Geographies of the Platform Economy Law

Geographies of the Platform Economy

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Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Critical perspectives on the geographies of the platform economy.- Part II: Platformization and new forms of economic organisation.- Chapter 2. Platform cooperatives: an organisational model to counteract extractive and exploitative practices in the platform economy?.- Chapter 3. Ride-hailing corporations, territorial selectivity, and urban algorithmic inequalities in Brazil.- Chapter 4. Crowd-based geo-data production and platform capitalism. The case of OpenStreetMap.- Chapter 5. VCs, technology firms, and governance: examining the tentacles of digital growth.- Chapter 6. A critical perspective on the increasing power of digital platforms through the lens of conjunctural geographies.- Part III: The effects of platformization on work and employment.- Chapter 7. Digital platforms and labour agency in the logistics sector - the role of production network knowledge.- Chapter 8. Digital work and the struggle for labour representation: the food and grocery online retail sector in Berlin (Germany).- Chapter 9. Positioning rural geography into platform economies: why we need to ask new questions when researching the rural platform economy.- Chapter 10. Digital platforms for (or against?) marginal areas: smart working and back-to-the-village rhetoric in Italy.- Part IV: Platforms, gig economy, and social-spatial vulnerabilities.- Chapter 11. All in a day's work: impacts of on-demand platform delivery work on immigrant riders in Barcelona.- Chapter 12. The new kids on the street: ride-hailing platform drivers competing with informal motorbike taxi livelihoods in Hanoi, Vietnam.- Chapter 13. The digital dis-intermediation and social re-intermediation of labour in India's gig economy.- Part V: Digital urban life futures.- Chapter 14. Digital politics, urban geographies: emergence as an orientation to life with platforms.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2025-06-19
Publication Date:
2025-06-19
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3031535960
ISBN13:
9783031535963
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
414 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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