Uber and the making of an Algopticon-Insights from the daily life of Montreal drivers

R Jamil - Capital & Class, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, Uber has been disrupting the world taxi
industry. However, the Uber algorithmic apparatus managed to perfectionize the scalable …

Shake that moneymaker: insights from Montreal's Uber drivers

R Jamil, Y Noiseux - Revue Interventions Économiques …, 2018 - journals.openedition.org
This article presents the results of an ongoing ethnography of Uber drivers in Montreal. It
draws on Jean-Pierre Durand's “job centrifugation dynamic”(Duran, 2004) conceptual …

Be your own boss?

TJ Minchin - australasian journal of american studies, 2020 - JSTOR
This article explores the long-term trends behind the rise of Uber, one of the most valuable
corporations in the contemporary US In 2018 a study by the Economic Policy Institute found …

Can capitalism be truly democratic?

A Artner - Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article re-examines the relationship between the liberal democracy and the free market
with special regard to changes caused by globalization. It concludes that the logic of market …

[PDF][PDF] Facing the challenges of platform-mediated labour: the employment relationship in times of non-standard work and digital transformation

A Aloisi - 2018 - iris.unibocconi.it
This dissertation focuses on digital platforms and apps connecting pools of workers,
employers and clients instantaneously. These working arrangements call into question the …

Les nouveaux visages de la précarisation du travail au Québec et au Canada: les risques de penser la raréfaction de la main-d'œuvre sans penser le travail

L St-Arnaud, É Giguère - Travailler, 2020 - cairn.info
Cet article présente une analyse et une discussion des enjeux humains et politiques des
nouveaux visages de la précarisation du travail au Québec et au Canada. Entre, d'un côté …