Capitalism in the Platform Age: Emerging Assemblages of Labour and Welfare in Urban Spaces

Mezzadra, Sandro, Cuppini, Niccoló, Frapporti, Mattia

Capitalism in the Platform Age: Emerging Assemblages of Labour and Welfare in Urban Spaces
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-04
  • 售價: $2,120
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,014
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 371
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031491491
  • ISBN-13: 9783031491498

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商品描述

This open access book provides an overview of urban digital platforms such as Airbnb and Deliveroo, which, along with Amazon, Google, Facebook, and other IT companies, constitute by now the infrastructures for other businesses to operate on and for our social life to go on. These platforms serve as standards-based techno-economic systems that simultaneously capture cooperation through remote coordination and organize labor via algorithm management.

Based on a three-years research project, this contributed book outlines a general theory of platform capitalism that conceives these platforms not only as technical devices, but as generative engines that operate at the interface of several aspects, such as digitalization of forms of social cooperation; algorithm-based management of labor and participation; and private and vertical appropriation of profits. These elements are somehow iconic of the capitalist evolution of the last decades, and they open up a reflection on new forms of "primitive accumulation" (in particular regarding data), on the mechanisms used to capture and extract social surplus value, and on the logistic-financial dimensions of capital. Finally, in light of the transformations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors examine how platforms can evolve into hegemonic organizational structures.

Assuming we are all already living in the age of the platform, this book takes a multifaceted approach-combining sociology with urban studies, and political sciences with economics-to grasp the challenges our societies face in terms of ensuring fair economic growth, adequate social protections, and labor rights. It will appeal to anyone interested in digital platforms and how they are changing the organization of labor, urban spaces, and forms of governance.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本開放存取的書籍提供了對於城市數位平台（如Airbnb和Deliveroo）的概述，這些平台與Amazon、Google、Facebook和其他IT公司一起，已成為其他企業運作和我們社交生活所依賴的基礎設施。這些平台作為基於標準的技術經濟系統，同時通過遠程協調捕捉合作，並通過演算法管理組織勞動。

基於三年的研究項目，這本貢獻性書籍概述了一個關於平台資本主義的普遍理論，將這些平台視為不僅僅是技術設備，而是在數位化社會合作形式、基於演算法的勞動和參與管理，以及私有和垂直的利潤占有等多個方面交互作用的生成引擎。這些元素在某種程度上象徵了過去幾十年資本主義的演變，並引發了對於新形式的「原始積累」（尤其是關於數據）的思考，以及捕捉和提取社會剩餘價值的機制，以及資本的物流金融維度。最後，考慮到與COVID-19大流行相關的變革，作者們探討了平台如何演變為霸權性的組織結構。

假設我們已經生活在平台時代，這本書採用多面向的方法-結合社會學與城市研究，政治科學與經濟學-來理解我們的社會在確保公平經濟增長、適當社會保護和勞工權益方面面臨的挑戰。它將吸引所有對於數位平台以及它們如何改變勞動組織、城市空間和治理形式感興趣的人。

作者簡介

​Sandro Mezzadra is a professor of political theory at the University of Bologna (Italy) and is an adjunct fellow at Western Sydney University (Australia). With Brett Neilson, he is the author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (Duke University Press, 2013) and of The Politics of Operations. Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019) and co-authored with Brett Neilson "The Rest and the West. Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" (Verso, 2024).
Niccolò Cuppini is lecturer and researcher at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Manno, Switzerland), editoriale member of the Scienza&Politica, member of the LUCI - Labour, Urbanscapes and Citizenship research area at the Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale (DEASS), and founding member of the Into the Black Box research group.

Mattia Frapporti is Junior Researcher within the HorizonEurope INCA project at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna. His main interests are the analysis of the political role of infrastructures and the relationship between logistics and politics. Since many years now, his research also focuses on the platform's world and their impact on urban spaces. He is a founding member of the research group Into the Black Box and he is on the editorial board of Zapruder and on the board of the Foundation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe.

Maurilio Pirone is a post-doc fellow at the University of Bologna (Italy), founding member of the Into the Black Box research group, and member of the editorial board of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Journal.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Sandro Mezzadra是意大利博洛尼亞大學的政治理論教授，也是澳大利亞西悉尼大學的兼職研究員。他與Brett Neilson合著了《邊境作為方法，或者勞動的增殖》（2013年，杜克大學出版社）和《操作的政治：挖掘當代資本主義》（2019年，杜克大學出版社），並與Brett Neilson合著了《休息與西方：多極世界中的資本與權力》（2024年，Verso出版社）。

Niccolò Cuppini是瑞士南部應用科學和藝術大學（Manno, Switzerland）的講師和研究員，是Scienza&Politica的編輯成員，也是LUCI - 勞動、城市景觀和公民研究領域的成員，隸屬於企業經濟、醫療和社會學部門（DEASS），並是Into the Black Box研究小組的創始成員。

Mattia Frapporti是博洛尼亞大學計算機科學系HorizonEurope INCA項目的初級研究員。他主要研究基礎設施的政治角色和物流與政治之間的關係。多年來，他的研究還聚焦於平台世界及其對城市空間的影響。他是Into the Black Box研究小組的創始成員，並且是Zapruder的編輯委員會成員，也是Jean Monnet pour l'Europe基金會的董事會成員。

Maurilio Pirone是意大利博洛尼亞大學的博士後研究員，Into the Black Box研究小組的創始成員，也是《工作組織、勞動和全球化》期刊的編輯委員會成員。

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