A Political-economical Analysis of Gig Economy and Digital"Nomads":Centering Around the Reverse Labor Process of Platform Gig Workers
Platform-mediated gig labour has shown a thriving development trend in recent years.Behind the phenomenon is the change in the actual conditions of reproduction of labour commodities driven by the development of digital technology.This work-on-demand mode of labour caters to the characteristics of the free flow of labor goods in the digital platform era,and is the product of cap and technological change.Analysis of the gig economy must start from the labor-manage-ment relationship behind it and explore the essence of"the reverse of labour process"of plat-form gig workers.On the one hand,gig labour makes the direct purchase of labour,rather than labour force,becoming the main expression of capital production.On the other hand,this kind of labour purchase profoundly reveals the essence of the exploitation of the labour process by platform capital.Therefore,it is necessary to clarify some misinterpretations of the reverse labor process,thus returning to Marx's historical materialism,and starting from the dimension of worker-capitalist relations,so as to explore the social roots of the technical ideological myth of platform gig labour in the digital age.
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