Worker Organisation in the UK: A Taxonomy of Struggle in the 'Gig Economy'

劳动力市场已经发生了向数字平台中介工作类型的转变。随着越来越多的人在千兆经济中工作，挑战就业和工作场所传统意义的趋势正变得非常重要。许多研究都讨论了零工经济中的工作条件(Gandini 2019，Cant 2019)。还观察到该部门的工人如何参与新形式的政治组织(Woodcock 2014，Wood&Lehdonvirta 2019)。然而，这项先前的研究集中在有限的或非英国的案例研究上。英国目前正在发生的工人组织类型还没有分类。关于这些新的政治组织形式与该行业所经历的社会和工作条件之间的关系存在一个问题。戏剧主义是马克思主义中的一种潮流，它提供了一种潜在的富有成效的方式，来对零工经济中社会和工作条件与政治组织形式之间的关系进行理论分析。歌剧学派的理论创新是“班级构成分析”。这种形式的分析假设了工作场所条件和政治组织形式之间的密切关系。这项研究将考察零工经济中存在的社会和工作条件；它将进一步检验这些条件如何产生新的政治组织形式。其结果将是对英国千兆经济中发生的政治组织进行分类。

A shift has occurred in labour markets towards types of digital platformmediated work. With increasingly more people working in the 'gigeconomy', trends that challenge traditional meanings of employment andworkplaces are becoming highly significant.Many studies have discussed working conditions within the gig economy(Gandini 2019, Cant 2019). It has also been observed how workers in thissector are engaged in new forms of political organising (Woodcock 2014,Wood & Lehdonvirta 2019). However, this previous research has focusedon limited, or non-UK case studies. There has been no taxonomy of thetypes of worker organisation happening now in the UK. There is a questionabout how these new forms of political organising relate to the social andworking conditions experienced in this sector.Operaismo, a current in Marxism, offers a potentially fruitful way oftheorising the relationship between social and workplace conditions andforms of political organisation in the gig economy. Operaismo'stheoretical innovation was 'class composition analysis'. This form ofanalysis posits a close relationship between workplace conditions andforms of political organisation. This study will examine the social andworkplace conditions present in the gig economy; it will further examinehow these conditions produce new forms of political organisation. Theresult will be a taxonomy of political organisation happening in the UK gigeconomy.