Debating Platform Capitalism Introduction

Abstract

The following text represents one of the first results of a collective knowledge production of two partners in a European-wide research project on Platform Labour in Urban Spaces. The research aims not only to empirically examine the rise of the “gig economy” in European cities, which, overall, has been little studied and even less in comparison between European cities, but moreover to suggest as to how we can conceptualize this rise and the changing living and labour conditions in urban space within the context of an emerging platform urbanism. We assume that an understanding of this rise is unthinkable without a privileged perspective on the changing working conditions, making platform labour a central entry point to understanding the global transformations in times of platform capitalism.

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