A vehicle for valorising the labour power of commuting: The politics of mobility fixing in Shanghai's Dockless Public Bike Sharing Sector

This paper seeks to contribute ongoing debates around the politics of hybrid mobilities, smart cities, surveillance capitalism and mobility fixing. Based on a set qualitative interviews with key stakeholders secondary sources, uses emergence dockless public bike sharing in Shanghai between 2016 2018 as its case study. In order explain PBSS illustrate our contention that this system create surplus value from work (in cycle commuting), we examine processes valorisation have occurred both position worthy activity (and therefore remunerate participants affectively) produce use values for data generated by users. doing so also highlight ways which these seek ensure users is not aligned products labour avoid calls be remunerated wage (which would reduce any extraction). Ultimately argue are only invasive, but exclusionary they prioritise select aspects social practice address matters (governmental) concern, rather than more rounded interpretation. We there an urgent need recognise practices beyond registers simply prepare ground their marketisation.