Navigating resistance on digital platforms: delivery and transportation labor in Türkiye
Batuhan Ersöz, Altan Başaran · 2024
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Batuhan Ersöz and Altan Başaran compare worker resistance on digital platforms in Istanbul across two trades: food delivery and urban transport. Platforms reshape work, yet pushback differs by field. The team read worker actions, news reports, and public statements from actors in both trades.
Delivery riders pressed classic labor demands, asking for rules and protections like older working-class movements. Transport drivers fought over rent and licenses instead, and their struggle turned institutional, fought through public bodies. The authors tie the split to how settled each trade was before platforms came, and to each trade's ties with the state. The same app model thus breeds two kinds of fight.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Batuhan Ersöz, Altan Başaran |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |