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Black Box or Hidden Abode? The Expansion and Exposure of Platform Work Managerialism
journal contribution
posted on 2019-06-24, 15:22 authored by Phoebe V. Moore, Simon JoyceThis Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical category
(Eagleton-Pierce and Knafo 2019), and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an
impenetrable black box. An important new form of managerialism is being revealed which is
specific to what Moore and Joyce argue to be a very observable, and also widely contested,
platform management model (PMM). Marx’s “hidden abode” is a more appropriate
metaphor than a black box, thus, given empirically demonstrable cases of control and
resistance. Drawing on insights from labor process theory, the article reveals how control
methods are at work, and transversally, how platform managerialism generates
considerable levels of worker and union resistance. Despite its seeming inevitability and
invincibility, platform managerialism is as knowable and as contestable, indeed, as
contested, as other forms.
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Citation
Review of International Political Economy Volume 27, 2020 - Issue 4: Special Issue on the Political Economy of ManagerialismAuthor affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of BusinessVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)