RT Journal Article
T1 The active production of consent for employment precarity and the euphemisation of coercion in platform economies: The case of food delivery riders.
A1 Pérez de Guzmán-Padrón, Sofía
A1 Serrano Pascual, María Amparo
A1 Iglesias Onofrio, Marcela
AB The mobilisation of new distance-based technologies that permit the governance of platform workers’ behaviour constitutes a watershed in the organisation of work and a transformation of the grammar of wage-earning society. Employing a qualitative methodology, this article analyses Spanish riders’ (delivery couriers) experiences of these psychopolitical mechanisms. The results show that the neoliberal and entrepreneurial dispositive deployed by digital platforms induces new rationalities of self-governance that are characterised by productive self-optimisation and self-surveillance. However, the analysis also found that the interpellation of the dispositive and its technologies of subjectivation were not homogeneous across all of the study participants. The article describes the characteristics and argumentative positions of three groups of riders whose sociostructural position shaped their experiences and engagement with the platforms as well as resistance to control mechanisms and disciplinary processes.
PB Sage publication
SN 0143-831X
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114573
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114573
LA eng
NO Pérez-de-Guzmán Padrón, S., Serrano-Pascual, A., & Iglesias-Onofrio, M. (2024). The active production of consent for employment precarity and the euphemisation of coercion in platform economies: The case of food delivery riders. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 45(4), 1040-1066. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231219465
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 11 abr 2025