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Valeria Pulignano
Work under capitalism is a story of employers’ attempts to control labour, to guarantee and enhance profitability. A ‘disciplined’ labour force is induced to work more productively for longer.
Today there are forces which pretend to push in a different direction, presenting workers within the digital market economy as free and autonomous from hierarchical structures of control. But are they really?
Claudia Marà
Discriminatory system
According to a recent ruling by the Court of Bologna against Deliveroo, one of the biggest food-delivery platforms, in a case brought by three unions, its riders are far from being free or even autonomous workers. The court found it to be the ‘conscious choice’ of management to subordinate riders through a ‘discriminatory’ reputational system.