Capitalism in the Platform Age

​Sandro Mezzadra is a professor of political theory at the University of Bologna (Italy) and is an adjunct fellow at Western Sydney University (Australia). With Brett Neilson, he is the author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (Duke University Press, 2013) and of The Politics of Operations. Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019) and co-authored with Brett Neilson "The Rest and the West. Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" (Verso, 2024). Niccolò Cuppini is lecturer and researcher at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Manno, Switzerland), editoriale member of the Scienza&Politica, member of the LUCI – Labour, Urbanscapes and Citizenship research area at the Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale (DEASS), and founding member of the Into the Black Box research group. Mattia Frapporti is Junior Researcher within the HorizonEurope INCA project at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna. His main interests are the analysis of the political role of infrastructures and the relationship between logistics and politics. Since many years now, his research also focuses on the platform’s world and their impact on urban spaces. He is a founding member of the research group Into the Black Box and he is on the editorial board of Zapruder and on the board of the Foundation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe. Maurilio Pirone is a Junior Researcher at the Department of Arts of University of Bologna (Italy) working in the Horizon Europe project INCA (Increase Corporate Political Responsibility and Accountability), founding member of the Into the Black Box research group, and member of the editorial board of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Journal.

• Part I. Theoretical Foundations.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Sandro Mezzadra).- Chapter 2. Operations of Platforms. A Global Process in a Multipolar World (Sandro Mezzadra).- Chapter 3. The process of valorization in the platform capitalism (Andrea Fumagalli).- Chapter 4. Out of the Standard. Towards a Global Approach to Platform Labour (Maurilio Pirone).- Chapter 5. What Urban Future: Do High-Tech Metropolises Dream of Electric Sheep? (Niccolò Cuppini).- Chapter 6. The Politics of Platforms. Exploring Platform’s Infrastructural Role and Power (Mattia Frapporti).- Chapter 7. Managing the Wheel: Managerial Normativity from the Wage Society to the Platform Age (Massimilano Nicoli).- Chapter 8. Digital labour, informal unionism and the rise of a new workers subjectivity (Marco Marrone).- Chapter 9. Platform capitalism: Infrastructuring migration, mobility, and racism (Stefania Animento).- Chapter 10. Affect, precarity and feminised labour inAirbnb in London (Eleni Kambouri).- Part II. Notes from the Field.- Chapter 11. Why the sectoral context matters for platform work (Bettina Haidinger).- Chapter 12. A Variegated Platform Capitalism? Algorithms, Labour Process and Institutions in Deliveroo in Bologna and Uber in Lisbon (Marco Marrone).- Chapter 13. Perceiving platform work as decent work? Views regarding working conditions among platform taxi drivers in Tallinn (Marge Unt).- Chapter 14. Skills development as a political process: Towards new forms of mobilization and digital citizenship among platform workers (Filippo Bignami).- Chapter 15. How to build alternatives to platform capitalism? (Mayo Fuster Morell).- Chapter 16. Labour policies for a fairer gig economy (Annamaria Donini).- Chapter 17. Engaging stakeholders with platform labour: The social lab approach (Raúl Tabarés).- Chapter 18. Local best practices. Urban governance and the ongoing platformization process (Michelangelo Secchi).- Chapter 19. Social protection, basic income and taxation in the Digital economy (Cristina Morini).- Chapter 20. Latent conflict, invisible organisation: Everyday struggles in platform labour (Moritz Altenreid).