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, Amparo
A1 Iglesias Onofrio, Marcela Yasmín
A2 Economía General
K1 Algorithmic governance
K1 entrepreneurial dispositive
K1 precarisation of work
K1 riders
K1 technologies of subjectivation
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 Publications
SN 0143-831X
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34192
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34192
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026