scholarly journals After a Global Platform Leaves: Understanding the Heterogeneity of Gig Workers through Capital Mobility

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052110559
Author(s):  
Youngrong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Global Platform ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

We know a great deal about global capital mobility in traditional industries, such as manufacturing, but very little about emerging capital mobility in the gig economy. Using the case of Canadian Foodora, a multinational platform that left Canada in 2020, I situate global capital mobility in the local labour market. Drawing upon interview data with former Foodora couriers and ethnographic data collected from a gig workers’ union, I investigate the social, economic and political subjectivities of gig workers activated by a global platform’s capital mobility. My findings reveal unexpected parallel effects caused by capital mobility in the gig economy and traditional industries. My research highlights how heterogeneity is salient for understanding divergent worker subjectivities. The economic and social impacts upon financially dependent gig workers and the emotional connections of devoted and organized gig workers challenge the dominant discourse that gig workers are simply part-timers and hence free from work commitments.

scholarly journals The incompatibility of local economic prosperity and migrants’ social integration: evidence from the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiling Wang
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Arrival Rate ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Ethnic Networks ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
The Social

Abstract This paper investigates the effects of the conditions of local labour markets on the social networks of immigrants, with an emphasis on co-ethnic contact and contact with people native to the locality. This study focuses on the case of immigrants in the Netherlands. For this case, I derived and empirically tested a job and residential search model. I found that a high job arrival rate and large wage differences between the ethnic labour market and the host labour market both correlate with immigrants developing stronger co-ethnic networks and weaker native networks as well as with immigrants choosing to live in more ethnically concentrated areas. These findings suggest that local economic prosperity does not necessarily beget social integration: in this case study, immigrants spontaneously assimilated less into the host society during a good economic period.

Language use as Social Strategy: A Review and an Analytic Framework for the Social Sciences

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Guerin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Social Strategy ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Ethnographic Data

Language use as a social strategy is reviewed and a new interdisciplinary taxonomy developed. Four categories are suggested for using language: to get people to do things, to get people to say things, to keep people's attention, and to maintain social relationships. Within these categories, all of the discourse and conversational analysis literatures are reviewed, allowing a common framework within which to make more systematic analyses. Reinterpretations of psychological theories are suggested, and fresh avenues for interdisciplinary research are created. A major imperative from the review is that some form of ethnographic data collection is needed for all analyses of conversations and texts to incorporate more of the social, economic, historical, and cultural contexts into both our observations and theorizing.

scholarly journals Problems Of The Functioning Of Local Labour Markers In The Context Of The New Economic Reality

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Pk. Katabay
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
State Management ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Reality

Barriers of modernizing and innovative developing the social and labour sphere of the Russian economy have been revealed and conceptual principles of state management of the development of economic relations in Russia in the framework of the new economic reality as well as the strategy of resetting the Russian economy on the innovative way of development and increasing business activity have been formulated. Local labour markets have been defined as an economic category. Institutional characteristics of the labour market have been presented, and the process of institualizing the development of economic relations has been explained.

scholarly journals Symbolic Closure: Towards a Renewed Sociological Perspective on the Relationship between Higher Education, Credentials and the Graduate Labour Market

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 1067-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerbrand Tholen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Social Closure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Credentials ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores how our understanding of the graduate labour market can be improved by re-assessing some of the insights of the conflictual tradition within sociology. In particular, its theorising of ‘social closure’ and the use of educational credentials within the labour market remain highly relevant. Yet these ideas need to be modified to better deal with the current social, economic and educational contexts. This article extends the social closure literature to deal with some of the changes within the graduate labour market by turning to Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas on symbolic violence. I will argue that ‘symbolic closure’, the reliance on exclusion through categorisation and classification, becomes of greater importance in a graduate labour market that no longer offers any clarity about what graduate skills, jobs and rewards constitute and signify.

Multiple-source Record Linkage in a Rural Industrial Community, 1680–1820

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve King
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Multiple Source ◽  
Demographic Analysis ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Industrial Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Broad Outline

Re-creating the social, economic and demographic life-cycles of ordinary people is one way in which historians might engage with the complex continuities and changes which underlay the development of early modern communities. Little, however, has been written on the ways in which historians might deploy computers, rather than card indexes, to the task of identifying such life cycles from the jumble of the sources generated by local and national administration. This article suggests that multiple-source linkage is central to historical and demographic analysis, and reviews, in broad outline, some of the procedures adopted in a study which aims at large scale life cycle reconstruction.

ON THE REGIME OF COVID-19 EPIDEMIC IN RUSSIA AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE FUEL AND ENERGY COMPLEX, INCLUDING IN EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SPHERES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Punanova ◽  
Mikhail Rodkin
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Energy Complex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Modernization ◽  
Mode Of Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regions Of Russia

The mode of development of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and the impact of the epidemic on the areas of scientific research, education and functioning of the fuel and energy complex are discussed. The official statistics revealed evidence both of effectivity of the taken anti-epidemic measures in Moscow and of possible cases of incorrectness of statistical data. The social situation and the mode of development of the epidemic in Moscow and in the regions of Russia are essentially different, that reduces the effectiveness of anti-epidemic measures introduced uniformly throughout the whole country. The conditions of the pandemic and quarantine are difficult for everyone, but organizations and persons with a more modern informational character of production adapt to them more easily. In general, it can be suggested that the epidemic besides the very essential losses gives an important impulse for social-economic and political modernization of the society.

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