Mobilization strategies in platform struggles depend on sectoral labor-process differences

Evidence

In both of the cases considered here, mobilizations developed through a mechanism of organizational appropriation, as workers exploited existing organizations for their common purpose. In the case of Amazon drivers, this meant making use of traditional resources from established trade unions; in the case of food delivery couriers, it meant resorting to the unconventional resources of urban movement organizations. … In this article, we argue that the sectoral differences in the labor process had a profound impact on the type of resources and opportunities that workers were able to create and appropriate during the eventful protests which fuelled the development of cultures of solidarity. — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds, 38

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reading purpose: shows that Amazon drivers’ appropriation of traditional union resources (narrow employer-specific frame) versus couriers’ appropriation of urban movement-organization resources (broader precarious-worker frame) is a function of sectoral labor-process history, not platform work per se. — connects to: Platform work’s effect on solidarity depends on labour-organization specifics, not platform work itself — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 10; Sector differences shape whether platform workers adopt narrow or broad solidarity identities — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 10; Labor-organization specifics shape whether platform workers form narrow or broad solidarities. — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 19 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Workers can overcome fragmentation, but sector structure determines mobilization paths and identity frames. #corroborates (0.90)
• Sectoral union embeddedness, not platform work per se, shapes worker identity and mobilization #corroborates (0.88) — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds, 120
• Anchoring union ties shape whether platform worker mobilization develops narrow or universalizing identity frames. #expands (0.82) — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds, 119
• Platform labor fragmentation is a deliberate politics of isolating workers across five dimensions #qualifies (0.75) — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds, 47