PHAIDRA – Collezioni digitali

This issue of Inequalities is dedicated to the impact and consequences of digital platform labor on inequalities and the system of inequalities. Platform capitalism is the result of long-term socio-economic transformations in the wake of the transition to a regime of flexible accumulation.
Developments and innovations in the electronics industry, in ICTs, and in digital technologies have played a significant role in these transformations. With the advent of the second machine age and the digitalization of just about everything, the pervasiveness of digital technologies in the various spheres and activities of social life has had multiple effects at the economic, social, cultural, and ecological levels.
But the digital sphere is not neutral: its consequences on the entirety of social life and on the world of work do not derive directly from new technologies, but from the capitalist conception and application of them.
Contrary to a perspective founded in “technological neutrality”, the digitalization of labor is not simply a technical matter in which technical means dominate over capital. In digitally driven labor transformation processes, the technological element appears on the surface to prevail over the social relations that actually subsume it.

Table of contents:

DIGITAL LABOUR PLATFORMS AND (NEW) INEQUALITIES

Introduction
Fabio Perocco, Giorgio Pirina

Platform Capitalism
Experimental Laboratories and the Struggles for the Regulation
Ricardo Antunes, Marco Gonsales, Murillo van der Laan

Entre informalité et salariat
Tensions et inégalités au sein des mobilisations collectives du secteur de la livraison à Bruxelles
Laura Victoria Rakotomalala, Zephyr Vitali

Use and Regulation of Brazilian Territory in Platform Capitalism
Technical-Financial Subordination of the Popular Economy and the Production of New Social-Spatial Inequalities
Lucas M. Guide, Matheus Dezidério Busca

Inequalities in the Platform Labor Market
A Study on Stratifications in the Italian Food Delivery Sector
Nicola Costalunga, Luigi Di Cataldo

The System of Inequalities in Food Delivery Services
The Case of Riders in Tuscany
Mirko Scardoni

Trabalho plataformizado e avanço das desigualdades educacionais no Brasil
Soraya Franzoni Conde, Cílson César Fagiani, Fabiane Previtali, Rosana Mendes Maciel Moreira