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‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy
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Platform firm in the gig-economy are disrupting work as a social practice, production systems and recasting capital-labour relations. This qualitative study examines worker agency in the Australian food-delivery sector; a segment where platforms actively intermediate both product and labour markets. Within this sector, worker agency poses a potential challenge to platform-organisations; however this study reveals how these platforms’ work organisation and market regulation constrain agency potential. Shaped by the work’s spatio-temporal features, organisational fixes and institutional context, it is shown how food-delivery workers, transiently attached to the labour market, predominantly engage in ‘entrepreneurial agency’ – a low-level agency expression aimed at materially improving individual conditions and aligning with, rather than challenging, platforms’ business models.
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- Authors
- Barratt, T., Goods, C., & Veen, A.
- Venue
- Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020-03-24
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1643-1661
- ISSN
- 0308-518X (ISSN-L)
- 1472-3409
- OpenAlex
- W3013822027
- Cited by
- 205
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 30.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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