%0 Journal Article 
%A Iglesias Onofrio, Marcela Yasmín
%T Collective strategies of resistance to the precarious labour conditions in the digital platform economy: the case of Riders x Derechos
%D 2023
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34203
%X The chapter analyses
the case of a Spanish self-organization collective of riders that lobbied for
the regularization of their initial fraudulent status as ‘false self-employed’. The
innovative nature of RxD lies in the fact that it is constituted as a collective
with two complementary lines of action: not only does it promote collective
action to fight for the labour rights of couriers who work for large digital
platforms in very precarious conditions, but it also promotes an alternative
business model, organized by the couriers themselves in the form of non-profit
cooperatives that offer a last-mile eco-friendly service and use an open-source
platform to manage orders, guaranteeing the couriers decent work. It is concluded
that while focusing its fight on the Uberization of the labour market,
RxD has managed to introduce the debate on precariousness and lack of regulation
in the digital economy in the Spanish public opinion, gaining the support
of other segments of society such as trade unions, other social movements
and the citizenry in general. Moreover, its lobby actions have contributed to
placing the debate on the political agenda, resulting in the enactment of the
recently passed Riders’ Law.
%~ Universidad de Cádiz