Be your own boss!
(2021) GNVK22 20211Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- This study seeks to explore how platform labor is rendered invisible and to emphasize the making of class in relation to precarious platform labor in a neoliberal context. Engaging the theoretical frameworks posed by Silvia Federici, Niels van Doorn and Beverley Skeggs, we perform a thematic analysis of three conducted interviews with Wolt couriers, as well as on a debate written by the director of Wolt Denmark, Søren Meier Svendsen, and the Wolt recruiting website likeaboss.nu. Our analysis is centered on the theme’s flexibility, liberation and value. Using a standpoint theoretical approach, we highlight our interviewees experiences as platform workers, to form a critique from their standpoint. We problematize how Wolt as a company draws... (More)
- This study seeks to explore how platform labor is rendered invisible and to emphasize the making of class in relation to precarious platform labor in a neoliberal context. Engaging the theoretical frameworks posed by Silvia Federici, Niels van Doorn and Beverley Skeggs, we perform a thematic analysis of three conducted interviews with Wolt couriers, as well as on a debate written by the director of Wolt Denmark, Søren Meier Svendsen, and the Wolt recruiting website likeaboss.nu. Our analysis is centered on the theme’s flexibility, liberation and value. Using a standpoint theoretical approach, we highlight our interviewees experiences as platform workers, to form a critique from their standpoint. We problematize how Wolt as a company draws on different neoliberal narratives on work and the individual worker. These narratives emphasize flexibility as a liberating force and constitute Wolt couriers as their own bosses due to their self-employment. Furthermore, they seek to disconnect from the low status of service work in the on-demand economy, by concealing the precarious structures of the work and constituting the Wolt courier as a powerful subject. We examine how the narratives that Wolt creates differ from our interviewee’s experiences, and ultimately render both the work and class invisible. (Less)
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- author
- Winkel Thorhauge Larsen, Ronja LU and Nørgaard Andersen, Bjørk LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Usynligt platformsarbejde i neoliberale tider
- course
- GNVK22 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- platformsarbejde, neoliberalisme, klasse, værdi, fleksibilitet, platform labor, neoliberalism, class, value, flexibility
- language
- Danish
- id
- 9066552
- date added to LUP
- 2021-10-07 08:57:52
- date last changed
- 2021-10-07 08:57:52
@misc{9066552, abstract = {{This study seeks to explore how platform labor is rendered invisible and to emphasize the making of class in relation to precarious platform labor in a neoliberal context. Engaging the theoretical frameworks posed by Silvia Federici, Niels van Doorn and Beverley Skeggs, we perform a thematic analysis of three conducted interviews with Wolt couriers, as well as on a debate written by the director of Wolt Denmark, Søren Meier Svendsen, and the Wolt recruiting website likeaboss.nu. Our analysis is centered on the theme’s flexibility, liberation and value. Using a standpoint theoretical approach, we highlight our interviewees experiences as platform workers, to form a critique from their standpoint. We problematize how Wolt as a company draws on different neoliberal narratives on work and the individual worker. These narratives emphasize flexibility as a liberating force and constitute Wolt couriers as their own bosses due to their self-employment. Furthermore, they seek to disconnect from the low status of service work in the on-demand economy, by concealing the precarious structures of the work and constituting the Wolt courier as a powerful subject. We examine how the narratives that Wolt creates differ from our interviewee’s experiences, and ultimately render both the work and class invisible.}}, author = {{Winkel Thorhauge Larsen, Ronja and Nørgaard Andersen, Bjørk}}, language = {{dan}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Be your own boss!}}, year = {{2021}}, }