In relation to work, the term 'platformisation' has gained popularity to indicate the various ways in which a digital platform gets to mediate, organise, intervene in, or otherwise facilitate some work activity. Yet, the intervention of digital platforms into work today increasingly involves activities that are not immediately related to the digital sphere, where different kinds of platforms have become part and parcel of the cultures and practices of work. There is a necessity, in other words, to develop a clearer framework to identify what it means when work activity gets to be 'platform-ised', the conditions under which this takes place, and what the main implications are deriving from this process. Using the case of 'neo-craft' work in the European Union, we propose and illustrate a theoretical conceptualisation of platform-ised work, critically discussing the distinctiveness of this process and highlighting its key features.

Platform-ised work? The case of neo-craft work / A. Gandini, G. Casagrande, G. Giorgi, G. Peterlongo, M. Tonetta. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES. - ISSN 1367-8779. - (2024), pp. 1-19. [Epub ahead of print] [10.1177/13678779241253624]

Platform-ised work? The case of neo-craft work

A. Gandini
Primo
;
G. Casagrande
Secondo
;
G. Giorgi;G. Peterlongo
Penultimo
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M. Tonetta
Ultimo
2024

Abstract

In relation to work, the term 'platformisation' has gained popularity to indicate the various ways in which a digital platform gets to mediate, organise, intervene in, or otherwise facilitate some work activity. Yet, the intervention of digital platforms into work today increasingly involves activities that are not immediately related to the digital sphere, where different kinds of platforms have become part and parcel of the cultures and practices of work. There is a necessity, in other words, to develop a clearer framework to identify what it means when work activity gets to be 'platform-ised', the conditions under which this takes place, and what the main implications are deriving from this process. Using the case of 'neo-craft' work in the European Union, we propose and illustrate a theoretical conceptualisation of platform-ised work, critically discussing the distinctiveness of this process and highlighting its key features.
digital labour; neo-craft work; platform work; platform-ised work; postindustrial society
Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi
   Craft work: Understanding the relationship between identity and work in the context of the “future of work” (CRAFTWORK)
   CRAFTWORK
   EUROPEAN COMMISSION
   H2020
   948982
2024
22-mag-2024
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