Power, control and subjectivity in digital food delivery platforms: a Foucaultian analysis of the Latin American app Rappi

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Federico De Stavola
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/158
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 178-198 File size 253 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2020-158009
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This article aims to analyze the power assemblage and the forms of subjectifica-tion presented in the Latin American food delivery app Rappi, based on a research realized in Buenos Aires and Mexico City. The conceps of discipline, governa-mentality and technologies of the self are used in order to analyze the digital plat-form and the systems of administration of the workforce in the enlarged coopera-tion; on the other hand, it will be analyzed the way they structure the working re-lationship and the subjectivity of the worker on the model of self-entrepreneurship. This analysis aims to propose the concept of functional auton-omy, which could be deepened in future research on the topic.

Keywords: Labour, discipline, platform capitalism, Latin America

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Federico De Stavola, Potere, controllo e soggettività nelle piattaforme digitali di food delivery: un’analisi foucaultiana dell’app latinoamericana Rappi in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 158/2020, pp 178-198, DOI: 10.3280/SL2020-158009