Geographies of the platform economy critical perspectives - Vale, Mário; Ferreira, Daniela; Rodrigues, Nuno (Cham, Switzerland Springer, 2024)
Contents: Part I: Introduction - - Introduction: critical perspectives on the geographies of the platform economy - - Part II: Platformization and new forms of economic organisation - - Platform cooperatives: an organisational model to counteract extractive and exploitive practices in the platform economy? - - Ride-hailing corporations, territorial selectivity, and urban algorithmic inequalities in Brazil - - Crowd-based geodata production and platform capitalism: the case of OpenStreetMap - - VCs, technology firms, and governance: examining the tentacles of digital growth - - 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 - - Digital platforms and labour agency in the logistics sector: the role of production network knowledge - - Digital work and the struggle for labour representation: the food and grocery online retail sector in Berlin (Germany) - - Positioning rural geography into platform economies: why we need to ask new questions when researching the rural platform economy - - 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 - - All in a day's work: impacts of on-demand platform delivery work on immigrant riders in Barcelona - - The new kids on the street: ride-hailing platform drivers competing with informal motorbike-taxi livelihoods in Hanoi, Vietnam - - The digital dis-intermediation and social re-intermediation of work and labour in India's gig economy - - Part IV: Digital urban life futures - - Digital politics, urban geographies: emergence as an orientation to life with platforms.
Keywords: Platform economy; Digital platforms; Economic geography; Political economy