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What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy
Abstract
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. Platforms are seen as entrepreneurial incubators, digital cages, accelerants of precarity, and chameleons adapting to their environments. Each of these devices has limitations, which leads us to introduce an alternative image of platforms: as permissive potentates that externalize responsibility and control over economic transactions while still exercising concentrated power. As a consequence, platforms represent a distinct type of governance mechanism, different from markets, hierarchies, or networks, and therefore pose a unique set of problems for regulators, workers, and their competitors in the conventional economy. Reflecting the instability of the platform structure, struggles over regulatory regimes are dynamic and difficult to predict, but they are sure to gain in prominence as the platform economy grows.
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This review identifies four dominant metaphors for platform work—entrepreneurial incubator, digital cage, accelerant of precarity, and institutional chameleon—and argues each is partial. It proposes an alternative image: platforms as “permissive potentates” that externalize responsibility and control while retaining concentrated power, making them a distinct governance mechanism from markets, hierarchies, or networks.
Key findings
- The literature is organized around four images: platforms as entrepreneurial incubators, digital cages, accelerants of precarity, and chameleons adapting to institutional environments; each contains partial truth but distorts platform affordances.
- Platforms are best understood as a new governance mechanism: they delegate control over work methods, schedules, and performance evaluation while retaining authority over task allocation, data collection, pricing, and revenue collection—hence “permissive potentates.”
- Platform work is highly heterogeneous; dependency status is a key determinant, with supplemental earners better able to refuse low-paying tasks and thus earn higher wages, exercise more autonomy, and report more satisfaction than dependent workers (Schor et al. 2019).
- Regulatory and collective-action struggles are dynamic: examples include California’s Dynamex ruling and Assembly Bill 5, New York City’s minimum wage for drivers, a 2019 global ride-hail strike, and SMart, a freelancers’ cooperative with 35,000 members since 1998; Chen (2018) found 40% of Didi drivers in China used digital strategies such as bots or multiple phones to subvert the algorithm.
Methods
- Design: a review article synthesizing sociological and related literature on the platform economy and gig work; no new primary data are collected.
- Data/sample: published studies, reports, and legal/regulatory developments; the authors construct a typology of five platform work types—architects/technologists, cloud-based consultants/freelancers, offline gig workers, microtaskers, and aspirational labor/content producers.
- Analysis: conceptual critique of four prevailing metaphors, development of the “permissive potentates” alternative, and review of regulatory struggles and a research agenda.
Limitations
- The paper states that platforms are a nascent, highly dynamic, and unstable economic form whose future is difficult to foresee; it cannot predict whether the platform governance mechanism will prove stable or institutionalized.
- The paper states that research is lopsided—abundant on service providers but much less on architects, technologists, and algorithmic design—and identifies understudied areas including systemic relations between conventional and platform economies, collective action, and alternative labor-condition strategies.
- Evident from the text: as a review, it does not report a systematic search protocol or primary empirical tests; its conclusions are interpretive syntheses of existing scholarship and reported cases.
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“Chen's (2018) study of Didi drivers in China found that 40% were using digital strategies such as bots or owning multiple phones to subvert the algorithm.”
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“Empirical studies have begun to find that workers can indeed develop forms of resistance, acting back on the technologies they confront.”
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“There are similar findings among delivery couriers, who also develop ways to resist algorithmic control (AttwoodCharles 2019,Schor et al. 2019, Shapiro 2018).”
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“For example, Rahman (2018) finds that freelancers on UpWork have found ways of defeating the platform's reputational metrics, essentially forming online alliances with clients to game the performance evaluation system.”
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“Cameron's (2019) multicity study of Uber drivers showed that workers deploy an array of tactics to evade the platform's rules.”
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“Bereft of long-standing protections such as a minimum wage, safety and health regulation, retirement income, health insurance, and worker compensation, platform workers are forced to assume forms and levels of risk that were previously shouldered by employers and the state.”
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“Platforms have thus far been able to avoid bearing the full costs and risks of employment, which they have devolved onto workers.”
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“Platform workers bear all the costs of inadequate demand and lost earnings.”
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“And they are subject to deactivation, with its attendant consequences, when customers rate them poorly (Ravenelle 2019, Rosenblat 2018).”
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“In her study of Uber in Boston, Robinson (2017) found that ride-hail drivers were able to build solidary ties among their own ranks, engaging in efforts to control the supply (and thereby the price) of their own labor power.”
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“Such tactics have recently gained wider use (Sweeney 2019).”
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“We identified four controlling images in the literature; however, each has weaknesses.”
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“These and other considerations provide abundant reasons for caution when generalizing about the nature and organization of platform work.”
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“A third category is gig workers whose services are engaged via platforms and generally performed offline, as in ride-hail, food delivery, home repair, and care work.”
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“Labor market dynamics and demand conditions vary across the groups, with architects and technologists being in chronically short supply and gig, microtasker, and unpaid content producers suffering from chronic excess supply, conditions that platforms often exacerbate with ongoing recruitment.”
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“If the first, entrepreneurial view exhibits elements of utopian thinking, the opposite charge can be leveled at the second approach to platform work.”
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“as permissive potentates that externalize responsibility and control over economic transactions while still exercising concentrated power.”
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“In the presence of network effects, platforms can scale, dominate markets, and gain enough monopoly power that they can dictate conditions of exchange or develop monopsonistic positions in their labor markets (Dube et al. 2018, Khan 2017).”
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“In particular, we focus on the shift from closed to open employment and the consequent retreat (Schor 2020) from direct control that platforms represent.”
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“Yet as industrial sociology eventually revealed, workers often devise tactics that enable them to evade, defy, or subvert the dictates of the assembly line (Hamper 1991).”
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“The first category includes the architects and technologists of the platforms, who are founders, highly skilled employees, and independent contractors.”
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“Furthermore, workers stand in different relations to the platform architecture, with architects serving as active designers (digital orthopedists), while others (microtaskers and many gig workers) are mainly passive recipients or users of the platform's affordances.”
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“it is unlikely that platforms will foster crowd-based capitalism or lead power and control to assume horizontal, peer-based configurations.”
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“A fourth type of platform work is performed entirely online, involving what is termed microtasking, as represented by workers engaged on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) or Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower).”
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“Reflecting the instability of the platform structure, struggles over regulatory regimes are dynamic and difficult to predict, but they are sure to gain in prominence as the platform economy grows.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The platform economy will continue to grow.
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“Subjecting these images to critique, we find that while each contains a partial truth, each also exhibits elements of distortion concerning the affordances that platforms actually exhibit.”
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“A second type of platform work is performed by cloud-based consultants or freelancers who offer professional services via platforms such as UpWork or Freelancer.”
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“Platform work also varies over time, owing to frequent changes in algorithmic designs, market conditions, and regulatory policy.”
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“we caution that platforms represent a nascent and highly dynamic economic form characterized by high levels of instability whose future is difficult to foresee.”
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“While platforms incorporate many of the features of prior economic structures-markets, hierarchies, and networks (Powell 1990)-they do so selectively, generating a type of governance mechanism that is qualitatively distinct from its precursors (Aneesh 2009, Kornberger et al. 2017).”
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“By contrast, the third image of platform work is more cautious about the transformative nature of institutional shifts.”
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“However different they are from one another, the first two images share the premise that labor platforms represent novel entities that signal a dramatic break, or rupture, with prior forms of work organization and economic activity.”
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“In effect, the labor process acquires a new geometry, in which ' control is radically distributed, while power remains centralized' (Kornberger et al. 2017, p. 79, emphasis added).”
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“Although platforms do create value-for example, by enabling more efficient operations and exchanges-their profits often depend on the ability to externalize the costs that conventional firms must pay (a form of free riding; see Schor et al. 2019).”
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“Some platforms also benefit from network effects, producing the concentrated markets and user lock-in that investors find so attractive, or from the harvesting of user data as a collateral source of value (see Rosenblat 2018; Srnicek 2016; Zuboff 2015, 2019).”
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“The effect, initially evident in temporary work and subcontracting, is to commodify labor time and disembed the worker from prior systems of social protection (Polanyi 1944, Wood et al. 2019).”
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“In such cases, platform earnings may actually decrease precarity and compensate for poor benefits or low wages in primary jobs or help reduce debt or build savings (Schor et al. 2019).”
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- Not checked yetcites Schor et al. 2019
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“The platform firm retains authority over important functions-the allocation of tasks, collection of data, pricing of services, and of course collection of revenues-but it cedes control over others, such as the specification of work methods, control over work schedules, and the labor of performance evaluation.”
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“we contend that platforms represent a distinctively new form of economic activity.”
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“Schor et al. (2019) have argued that dependency status (i.e., how reliant platform workers are on their earnings to pay their basic living expenses) is a key determinant of outcomes”
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- Not checked yetcites Schor et al. 2019
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“Thus, they earn higher wages, exercise more autonomy over their conditions of work, and are more satisfied than those who are dependent (Schor et al. 2019).”
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“There is little question that algorithmic controls can and do inscribe managerial interests.”
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“In ridehail and delivery, local provisioning means the absence of network effects and should make small cooperative entities viable.”
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“SMart and Stocksy engage high-skilled earners.”
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- Rests on an assumption: SMart is a freelancers' cooperative with 35,000 members.
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“They tend to share a common narrative.”
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“By contrast, platforms typically relinquish control over these processes, offering an open employment relation that greatly relaxes personnel selection criteria and affords workers considerable autonomy over when and how often to work (Schor et al. 2019).”
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“The authors are not aware of any affiliations, memberships, funding, or financial holdings that might be perceived as affecting the objectivity of this review.”
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“We have added a fifth, which contends that from the point of view of labor and the future of work, platforms should be thought of as a new economic form, distinct from markets, firms, and networks.”
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“Most of these accounts feature this future as one of superexploitation, surveillance, and even more powerful corporate rule (Frenken 2017; Kenney & Zysman 2016, 2019; Pasquale 2016; Srnicek 2016).”
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“Sulakshana et al. (2018) found that Stocksy United, a platform cooperative, resulted in better economic conditions and more satisfaction for its photographers.”
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“numerous analysts have attempted to predict the future of platforms (Frenken 2017; Kenney & Zysman 2015, 2016; Pasquale 2016; Scholz 2016b; Schor 2020; Srnicek 2016).”
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“However, as we noted, the stability of the current configuration remains in doubt”
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The platform economy will continue to grow.
“as the platform economy grows”
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Extracting profit from workers requires potent mechanisms of control.
“The history of capitalism suggests that extracting profit from workers requires potent mechanisms of control.”
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Labor platforms have established themselves as important players in domestic and increasingly global labor markets.
“Originally considered a curious novelty, labor platforms have now established themselves as important players in domestic and, increasingly, global labor markets.”
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SMart is a freelancers' cooperative with 35,000 members.
“In Europe, SMart, a successful freelancers' cooperative with 35,000 members, has been functioning since 1998.”
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SMart has been functioning since 1998.
“In Europe, SMart, a successful freelancers' cooperative with 35,000 members, has been functioning since 1998.”
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In carework, agencies capture rents for reputational assurance.
“The hope is that coops can also improve conditions for lower-wage workers in occupations such as carework, where agencies capture rents for reputational assurance, and housecleaning, where informality reigns.”
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In housecleaning, informality reigns.
“The hope is that coops can also improve conditions for lower-wage workers in occupations such as carework, where agencies capture rents for reputational assurance, and housecleaning, where informality reigns.”
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“Online gig platforms can automatically match clients and housekeeping workers, streamline transactions, and manage reviews (Vallas and Schor 2020), tasks that heavily overlap with the duties of incumbent middle-skilled workers.”
From Skill-Biased Technical Change, Again? Online Gig Platforms and Local Employment (2025) · cites this paper as Vallas and Schor 2020
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“This perspective is supported by several recent studies that recognized gig platforms as catalysts for entrepreneurial ventures (e.g., Barrios et al. 2020, Vallas andSchor 2020).”
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“Third, online gig platforms lower barriers for workers to enter the job market, thus promoting selfemployment opportunities (Vallas and Schor 2020).”
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“Differences across these types include the level of skill, the spatial dispersion of the work (Vallas and Schor 2020) and the nature of the employment relation.”
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“Vallas and Schor reject an assumed view of platform workers that is overly homogeneous.Many platform workers in fact use the work to complement income, precarisation through platform is far from a universal trend.”
From Artificial intelligence and work: a critical review of recent research from the social sciences (2024) · cites this paper as Vallas and Schor 2020
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“Vallas and Schor reference a large number of studies on working conditions for appworkers (see the more recent Moore and Woodstock 2021), and conclude that power asymmetry rather than horizontal democracy has so far been the experience of workers.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vallas, S., & Schor, J. B.
- Affiliations
- Northeastern University (US)
- Boston College (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Sociology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2020-07-30
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 273-294
- ISSN
- 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2115
- OpenAlex
- W3019960341
- Semantic Scholar
- 271690a646b29b26e82362522b572b4a2481b0f2
- Cited by
- 1,354
- References
- 102
- Citations by year
- 2026: 291 · 2025: 279 · 2024: 264 · 2023: 231 · 2022: 169 · 2021: 95 · 2020: 23
- FWCI
- 22.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Legal and Labor Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Platforms and Economics
- Keywords
- platform economy, platform work, gig economy, nature of work, employment, precarity, business incubators, governance mechanisms, platform regulation, concentration of power, economic transactions
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