Moore, PV and Joyce, S orcid.org/0000-0003-0909-9791 (2020) Black box or hidden abode? The expansion and exposure of platform work managerialism. Review of International Political Economy, 27 (4). pp. 926-948. ISSN 0969-2290
Abstract
This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box. An important new form of managerialism is being revealed which is specific to what Moore and Joyce argue to be a very observable, and also widely contested, platform management model (PMM). Marx’s ‘hidden abode’ is a more appropriate metaphor than a black box, thus, given empirically demonstrable cases of control and resistance. Drawing on insights from labor process theory, the article reveals how control methods are at work, and transversally, how platform managerialism generates considerable levels of worker and union resistance. Despite its seeming inevitability and invincibility, platform managerialism is as knowable and as contestable, indeed, as contested, as other forms.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Review of International Political Economy . Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Platform work; labor process; future of work; digitalized work; black box; algorithms |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2019 11:01 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2021 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09692290.2019.1627569 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:148823 |