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The Ascendant Fluid Work Relationships Typifying the Gig Economy

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Introduction

Platform capitalism, a definite fashion of sociotechnical go-between, and business arrangement, integrated into broader mechanisms of capitalization, define digital economic circulation. To establish multi-sided markets and harmonize network effects, platforms register users via a collaborative economic culture (Lao 2018), and resort to code and data analytics to make up omnipresent infrastructures. Platform intermediation is deep-seated in the actual fashioning of a reproducible business pattern. Focusing on swift up-scaling and deriving incomes from circulations and related data trails, the pattern operates the configuration of venture capital investment which maximizes the capacity of platforms to capitalize monopoly rents. The platforms functioning in each sphere of digital circulation are to a certain degree different but share a unique coherence and series of sociotechnical routines of intermediation (Langley and Leyshon 2017).

In the on-demand economy, platforms...

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  1. Spiru Haret University, Constanța, Romania

    Octav Neguriță

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Neguriță, O. (2019). The Ascendant Fluid Work Relationships Typifying the Gig Economy. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_708-1

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