Geographic added value, (cyber)space and labour

Journal title ECONOMIA E SOCIETÀ REGIONALE
Author/s Massimiliano Tabusi
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/1 Language Italian
Pages 17 P. 13-29 File size 270 KB
DOI 10.3280/ES2021-001002
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

Labour context is changing rapidly and it seems interesting to consider, in this regard, the role of space in an era in which it also extends towards a "cyber" dimension. Lives, salaries and bodies of workers, sometimes used like "human drones", are in close connection with the spatial conditions, and it is precisely due to the spatial differences that in our time a huge part of value is generated (the "Geographic Added Value). Gig economy can be seen as an antici-pation of the problematic effects that could arrive early, even on more traditional sectors. The text deals with these issues, between risks, disintermediation, fragmentation that the current context presents, but also with the potential that, in perspective and acquiring greater spatial awareness, could be seized by society and by the workforce.

Keywords: Geographic Added Value, Space, Cyberspace, Geographies, Labour, Gig Economy

Jel codes: E26, J46, O30, R32

  1. Aloisi A. (2016). Commoditized Workers: Case Study Research on Labor Law Issues arising from a Set of On-Demand/Gig Economy Platforms. Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal: 653-690.
  2. Armano E., Annalisa Murgia A., Teli M., a cura di (2017). Platform capitalism e confini del lavoro negli spazi digitali. Milano: Mimesis.
  3. Bauwens M., Ramos J. (2018). Re-Imagining the Left through an Ecology of the Commons: Towards a Post-Capitalist Commons Transition. Global Discourse: 325-342. DOI: 10.1080/23269995.2018.1461442.
  4. Briziarelli M. (2018). Spatial Politics in the Digital Realm: The Logistics/Precarity Dialectics and Deliveroo’s Tertiary Space Struggles. Cultural Studies: 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2018.1519583
  5. Brown P., Hugh Lauder H., Ashton D. (2011). The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes. New York: Oxford University Press.
  6. Calvino C. (2015). Stalking pincopallino: sorveglianza, privacy e prossimità al tempo di Twitter. Rivista Geografica Italiana: 67-94.
  7. Castree N. (2008). Labour geography: a work in progress. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31: 853-862.
  8. Cherry C.E., Pidgeon N.F. (2018). Is sharing the Solution? Exploring Public Acceptability of the Sharing Economy. Journal of Cleaner Production, 195: 939-948.
  9. Ciccarelli R. (2018). Forza lavoro. Il lato oscuro della rivoluzione digitale. Roma: DeriveApprodi.
  10. Coe N.M., Jordhus-Lier D.C. (2011). Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour. Progress in Human Geography, 35(2): 211-233. DOI: 10.1177/0309132510366746
  11. Coe N.M., Hesse M. (2013). Global Production Networks, Labour and Development. Geoforum, 44: 4-9.
  12. Coe N.M., Yeung H.W. (2015). Global production networks: theorizing economic development in an interconnected world. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  13. Cumbers A., Nativel C., Routledge P. (2008). Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography, 8: 369-387.
  14. Dicken P., Kelly P.F., Olds K., Yeung H.W. (2001). Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards a relational framework for analysing the global economy. Global Networks, 1(2): 89-112. DOI: 10.1111/1471-0374.00007
  15. Fana M. (2017). Non è lavoro, è sfruttamento. Bari: Laterza.
  16. Hamari J., Sjöklint M., Ukkonen A. (2015). The Sharing Economy: Why People participate in Collaborative Consumption. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(9): 2047-2059.
  17. Herod A. (1995). The practice of international labor solidarity and the geography of the global economy. Economic Geography, 71(4): 341-363. DOI: 10.2307/144422
  18. Herod A. (1997). From a Geography of Labor to a Labor Geography: Labor’s Spatial Fix and the Geography of Capitalism. Antipode, 29(1): 1-31.
  19. Holford W.D. (2019). The Future of Human Creative Knowledge Work within the Digital Economy. Futures, 105: 143-154.
  20. Knutsen H.M., Endresen S.B., Bergene A.C., Jordhus-Lier D. (2015). Labor, Geography of. In: Wright J., a cura di. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier: Amsterdam.
  21. Langley P., Leyshon A. (2016). Platform Capitalism: The Intermediation and Capitalisation of Digital Economic Circulation. Finance and Society, 3(1): 11-31.
  22. Martin C. J. (2016). The Sharing Economy: A Pathway to Sustainability or a Nightmarish Form of Neoliberal Capitalism? Ecological Economics, 121: 149-159.
  23. Mulcahy D. (2017). The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to getting Better Work, taking more Time off, and financing the Life You want. New York: Amacom.
  24. Polany K. (1974). La grande trasformazione. Torino: Einaudi.
  25. Richardson L. (2017). Sharing as a Postwork Style: Digital Work and the Co-Working Office. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 10(2): 297-310.
  26. Rossi E. (1955). I padroni del vapore. Bari: Editori Laterza.
  27. Rossi U. (2017). Biopolitica della condizione urbana: forme di vita e governo sociale nel tardo neoliberalismo. Rivista Geografica Italiana, 124(3): 245-262.
  28. Scholz T., a cura di (2013). Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory. New York: Routledge.
  29. Scholz T. (2016). Platform Cooperativism. Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy. New York: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
  30. Scholz T., Schneider N., a cura di (2016). Ours to hack and to own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet. New York: OR Books.
  31. Srnicek N. (2017). Platform Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity.
  32. Standage T. (2002). Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess Playing Machine that Fooled the World. Londra: Allen Lane.
  33. Tabusi M. (2019a). Un “plusvalore geografico”? Dal commercio internazionale alle migrazioni: lavoro, informazione geografica e relazioni multiscalari come elementi chiave della società contemporanea. In: Salvatori F., a cura di. L’apporto della geografia tra rivoluzioni e riforme. Roma: A.Ge.I. editore.
  34. Tabusi M. (2019b). Gig-economy e informazione spaziale: plusvalore geografico e lavoro nei nuovi servizi tecnologici. Geotema, 59: 78-90.
  35. Van Doorn N. (2017). Platform Labor: On the Gendered and Racialized Exploitation of Low-Income Service Work in the «OnDemand» Economy. Information, Communication & Society, 20(6): 898-914. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1294194
  36. Wills J. (2009). Labour geography. In: Gregory D., Johnston R., Pratt G., Watts M.J., Whatmore S., a cura di. The Dictionary of Human Geography. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

Massimiliano Tabusi, Plusvalore geografico, (cyber)spazio e lavoro in "ECONOMIA E SOCIETÀ REGIONALE " 1/2021, pp 13-29, DOI: 10.3280/ES2021-001002