TY - JOUR
T1 - Contingent workers and innovative digital collective action in Europe. Exploring inclusiveness through political intersectionality
AU - Arcidiacono, Davide Luca
AU - Manzo, Cecilia
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - According to many scholars, digitalisation generates new inequalities that
intersect and stratify old ones, and endangers the exercise of collective
voice and the role of unions. This article aims to reverse this perspective
by exploring how digital technology could strengthen collective action. To
this end, we adopt a political intersectional approach as a framework to
assess whether the case studies considered in this article represent more
inclusive ways of engaging different marginalised groups situated at the
intersection of various forms of inequality. Our analysis draws on 13 case
studies involving platforms and digital tools used as strategic devices to
aggregate and support intermittent and contingent workers across five
EU countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. The findings
suggest that digitalisation offers significant potential for developing new
worker actions and forms of representation. However, many social groups
remain marginalised, even when their specific conditions or claims are
forcefully invoked in an effort to drive regulatory and policy responses.
AB - According to many scholars, digitalisation generates new inequalities that
intersect and stratify old ones, and endangers the exercise of collective
voice and the role of unions. This article aims to reverse this perspective
by exploring how digital technology could strengthen collective action. To
this end, we adopt a political intersectional approach as a framework to
assess whether the case studies considered in this article represent more
inclusive ways of engaging different marginalised groups situated at the
intersection of various forms of inequality. Our analysis draws on 13 case
studies involving platforms and digital tools used as strategic devices to
aggregate and support intermittent and contingent workers across five
EU countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. The findings
suggest that digitalisation offers significant potential for developing new
worker actions and forms of representation. However, many social groups
remain marginalised, even when their specific conditions or claims are
forcefully invoked in an effort to drive regulatory and policy responses.
KW - Inequalities, digitalisation, industrial relations, marginal groups, digital collective action, contingent workers, political intersectionality
KW - Inequalities, digitalisation, industrial relations, marginal groups, digital collective action, contingent workers, political intersectionality
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/306030
U2 - 10.1177/10242589251318661
DO - 10.1177/10242589251318661
M3 - Article
SN - 1024-2589
SP - N/A-N/A
JO - Transfer
JF - Transfer
ER -