Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between mobilities and political economy through mobile work

This paper demonstrates how mobilities perspectives might contribute to debates in political economy on labour and work, by interrogating mobility’s relation work labour. The makes four interventions. It offers (1) an overview of the literature mobile working with concerns develop a typology grounded movement geographical space. (2) then examines different types are coordinated. Coordination is achieved devices, some which (timetables algorithms) choreograph space time whilst others (e.g. signals, tachographs, apps) control, record evaluate movement. Focusing coordination devices allows for be differentiated from work. In platform-mediated governance through dashboards mobility, consolidation marketization mobility data workers, turns labour, one contingency dependency. further shows (3) shape conditions affective experience on-the-move time. As condition more jobs that they done on-the-move, consequence (4) activists recognise employment.