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    • Conclusion: Why Struggles Against Platform Capitalism Matter

    Jamie Woodcock

    Chapter from the book: Woodcock, J. 2021. The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy.

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    The conclusion of the book draws together each of the examples of platform work and of its analysis, emphasising and reiterating the key argument of the book: that rather than undermining worker agency, platforms have instead provided the technical basis for the emergence of new global struggles against capitalism.

    Disciplines:

    digital sociology industrial relations politics of work sociology of work 

    Keywords:

    workers’ struggles labour process class composition digital workerism technology capitalism 

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    Woodcock, J. 2021. Conclusion: Why Struggles Against Platform Capitalism Matter. In: Woodcock, J, The Fight Against Platform Capitalism. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book51.f
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    Published on March 2, 2021

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    https://doi.org/10.16997/book51.f