“Just-in-Place” labor: Driver organizing in the Uber workplace

KJ Wells, K Attoh, D Cullen - Environment and Planning A …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the socio-spatial dynamics of worker agency in the platform economy
in the Washington, DC region. Drawing on the field of labor geography, we document the …

Restructuring legal geography

R Orzeck, L Hae - Progress in Human Geography, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We argue that legal geography's ability to produce holistic knowledge about law and legal
relations is hampered by the qualified dominance in the field of what we refer to as a …

'Embodiments of the invention': Patents and urban diagrammatics in the smart city

A Shapiro - Convergence, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
How do technology firms compete to colonize the urban future? This article theorizes
technology patents as a medium of urban futuring. Patents secure legal exclusion by …

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 …