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In this article, we argue that the governance of gig work under conditionsof financialised platform capitalism is characterised by a process that we call “dual value production”: the monetary value produced by the service provided is augmented by the use and speculative value of the data produced before, during, and after service provision. App-governed gig workers hence function as pivotal conduits in software systems that produce digital data as a particular asset class. We reflect on the production of data assets and the unequal distribution of opportunities for their valorisation, after which we survey a number of strategies seeking data-centric worker empowerment. These strate-gies, we argue, are crucial attempts to push back against platform capitalism’s domination, bankrolled by what we term “meta-platforms”. Ultimately, it is the massive wealth and synergetic capacities of meta-platforms that constitute the most formidable obstacle to worker power and social justice in increasingly data-driven societies.
Author(s): van Doorn N, Badger A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Antipode
Year: 2020
Volume: 52
Issue: 5
Pages: 1475-1495
Print publication date: 24/09/2020
Online publication date: 03/06/2020
Acceptance date: 02/04/2020
Date deposited: 23/10/2025
ISSN (print): 0066-4812
ISSN (electronic): 0066-4812
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12641
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12641
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