Platform Politics

Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3614-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

The ‘sharing economy’, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what changes have come about, and why?

This book shows how platform capitalism is not only shaped by business decisions, but is a result of struggles involving social movements, consumer politics and state interventions. It focuses in particular on the controversial tactics used by platform giants to avoid regulation.

Drawing on cutting-edge research and analysis, the book provides a critical overview of the struggles around platforms, examines platform power, and reflects on the different possible futures of the platform economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yates, Luke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducing Platform Politics

2. Contested Stories of Platform Capitalism: Crisis, Legitimacy and Platform Rhetoric

3. Trajectories of Struggle around Lean Platforms: Making Sense of Change

4. The Practices of Platform Power: A Typology

5. Manufacturing a Movement: Platform Power at Airbnb

6. The Futures of Platform Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Yates, Luke
Luke Yates is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester.

Luke Yates is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester.