TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jamie Woodcock
TI  - The fight against platform capitalism: an inquiry into the global struggles of the gig economy
SN  - 9781912656943
U1  - 331.257 WOO 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - University of Westminster Press
KW  - Electronic commerce
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - So far, platform work has been an important laboratory for capital. Management techniques, like the use of algorithms, are being tested with a view to exporting across the global economy and it is argued that automation is undermining workers' agency. Although the contractual trick of self-employment has allowed platforms to grow quickly and keep their costs down, yet it has also been the case also that workers have also found they can strike without following the existing regulations
ER  -