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  title info:
    title: Platform politics
    sub title: corporate power, grassroots movements and the sharing economy
  name:
    name part: Yates, Luke
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (160 pages)
  abstract: The platform economy, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what are the actual benefits to our society and economy? This book interrogates the 'sharing economy', showing how platform capitalism is not only shaped by business decisions, but is a result of struggles involving social movements, consumer politics and state interventions. It focuses in particular on the controversial tactics used by platform giants to avoid regulation. Drawing on cutting-edge research and analysis, this book provides a critical overview of this important topic, and imagines the different possible futures of the platform economy.
  table of contents: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing Platform Politics -- Contested Stories of Platform Capitalism: Crisis, Legitimacy and Platform Rhetoric -- Trajectories of Struggle around Lean Platforms: Making Sense of Change -- The Practices of Platform Power: A Typology -- Manufacturing a Movement: Platform Power at Airbnb -- The Futures of Platform Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index
  note: by Luke Yates.
  note: 1. Introducing Platform Politics2. Contested stories of platform capitalism: crisis, legitimacy and platform rhetoric3. Trajectories of struggle around lean platforms: making sense of change4. The practices of platform power: a typology5. Can you manufacture a movement? Platform power at Airbnb6. The futures of platform politics.
  note: Luke Yates is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester.
  subject:
    topic: Gig economy
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Économie à la demande
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Technologie de l'information
    topic: Aspect économique
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies
  classification: HC79.I55 Y38 2025
  classification: 303.4833
  identifier: 1529236177
  identifier: 9781529236170
  identifier: 9781529236149
  identifier: 9781529236156
  identifier: 9781529236163
  identifier: 1529236169
  identifier: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: UKTPP
    record creation date: 240830
    record change date: 20260429163956.4
    record identifier: in00005780102
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng