Work under Platform Capitalism

该项目旨在解决由于平台资本主义的兴起而面临的现代社会问题。 平台资本主义是一种商业模式，在这种模式中，人们在公司的算法协调下为自己工作，它涵盖了广泛的服务、运输和制造业，正在改变工作、消费和日常生活的组织和体验。 对于平台企业，本研究调查了工作、工作场所和工人的意义;社会、性别和家庭关系的不同;以及权力关系，如劳动政治和国家监管权力。 研究结果将推进工作和组织社会学领域的科学知识。 调查结果还将增加公众和政策制定者对平台资本主义的性质和影响的了解，从而为决策提供信息，并为国家福利做出贡献。本研究重点关注世界上最大的平台经济体（就收入和参与者数量而言）。本研究采用人种学观察和对管理层、工人和政府官员的访谈，比较了三个平台公司在三个部门的工作和管理关系：运输，主要是男性司机;家庭劳动，主要是女性家庭佣工;电子商务，主要是年轻店主。 这三个案例的比较将有助于区分和理论化的工作制度和劳动政治的性别，代介导的各种不平衡的经济和政治利益的国家。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project addresses questions confronting modern society due to the rise of platform capitalism. Platform capitalism, a business model in which people work for themselves as coordinated algorithmically by a company, spans a wide range of service, transportation, and manufacturing industries and is changing the organization and experiences of work, consumption, and everyday life. For platform enterprises, this study investigates the meaning of work, workplace, and worker; how social, gender, and family relations are different; and power relations, such as labor politics and state regulatory power. Findings will advance scientific knowledge in the field of sociology of work and organizations. Findings also will increase public and policymakers' knowledge concerning the nature and effects of platform capitalism, thereby informing decision-making and contributing to the national welfare.This study focuses on the world's largest platform economy in terms of revenues and number of participants. Using ethnographic observations and interviews with management, workers, and government officials, this research compares work and management relations among three platform corporations in three sectors: transportation, with majority male drivers; domestic labor, with majority female domestic workers; and e-commerce, with majority young shopkeepers respectively. Comparison across the three cases will help differentiate and theorize the variety of work regimes and labor politics mediated by gender, generation, and the uneven economic and political interest of the state. Empirical data on this platform economy will be useful for sociological analysis, and will provide comparative perspectives for the public, policy makers, unions and businesses in other expanding platform economies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.