The Reconstruction of Labor Process by Financialization:A Research on Platform Financialization and the Labor Process of Platform Workers
Through the field investigation of online car-hailing drivers,this paper finds that the financialization of online car-hailing platforms has a profound impact on the labor process of online car-hailing platform workers,and the platform will organize and reconstruct the specific labor and production process of platform workers according to the valuation logic of the financial market.The specific manifestations are:the flexibility of employment,the financialization of labor tools and the productization of labor data.The restructuring of the labor process of platform workers by platform financialization leads to the blurring of the labor employment relationship of platform workers,and strengthens the control and management ability of capital on the labor process of workers by intensifying the competition between workers and increasing the degree of workers'dependence on capital.To understand how work and labor are changing,it is necessary to consider finance as a driving force beyond digitalization.