Platform capitalism’s social contract
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چکیده
What kind of social contract underwrites platform capitalism? Based on findings from the Platform Labor research project, this essay argues that we are seeing emergence different gendered “platform fixes”.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Internet policy review
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2197-6775']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14763/2022.1.1625