Platform cooperatives: An organisational model to counteract extractive and exploitative practices in the platform economy?

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dc.check.date2025-06-18en
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dc.contributor.authorPower, Carolen
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Oliveren
dc.contributor.authorO’Connor, Rayen
dc.contributor.editorVale, Márioen
dc.contributor.editorFerreira, Danielaen
dc.contributor.editorRodrigues, Nunoen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-15T13:34:13Z
dc.date.available2025-01-15T13:34:13Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-18en
dc.description.abstractThe platform economy has transformed the experiences of everyday transactions, providing convenience and choice for consumers. However, platform companies have been criticised for the exploitation of workers in the gig economy and extracting value from local communities. Drawing on three case studies, this chapter examines the potential of the cooperative organisational model to function as a barrier to extractive capitalism. Cooperatives are democratically controlled organisations that are owned and governed by their members. They espouse the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity (ICA, Cooperative identity, values and principles. Retrieved from https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity, n.d.). Platform cooperatives are owned by their workers or service users and, therefore, do not have to meet the profit demands of external shareholders. This chapter demonstrates how platform cooperatives can enable a more democratic economy that embeds a wider distribution of ownership and benefits (Morozov E, Bria F. Rethinking the smart city: democratizing urban technology. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2018) or an economy that is “distributive by design” (Raworth K. Doughnut economics: seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist. Random House Business Books, 2017). However, we contend that cooperatives are only part of the systemic response needed to counter the social and economic injustices that have emerged within the platform economy.en
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dc.identifier.citationPower, C., Moore, O. and O’Connor, R. (2024) 'Platform cooperatives: An organisational model to counteract extractive and exploitative practices in the platform economy?', in Vale, M., Ferreira, D. and Rodrigues, N. (eds) Geographies of the Platform Economy. Economic Geography. Springer, Cham, pp. 15-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53594-9_2en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53594-9_2en
dc.identifier.endpage31en
dc.identifier.isbn9783031535932en
dc.identifier.isbn9783031535949en
dc.identifier.issn2520-1417en
dc.identifier.issn2520-1425en
dc.identifier.startpage15en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16830
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
dc.relation.ispartofEconomic Geographyen
dc.relation.ispartofVale, M., Ferreira, D. and Rodrigues, N. (eds) Geographies of the Platform Economy. Economic Geography. Springer, Chamen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEconomic Geographyen
dc.rights© 2024, the Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This version of the chapter has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53594-9_2en
dc.subjectPlatform economyen
dc.subjectPlatform cooperativesen
dc.subjectSolidarity economyen
dc.subjectDemocratic business modelsen
dc.subjectExtractive capitalismen
dc.subjectCooperative organisation modelsen
dc.titlePlatform cooperatives: An organisational model to counteract extractive and exploitative practices in the platform economy?en
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