Peer production decouples governance from property and contract, blurring paid and voluntary work.

Evidence

Lately, scholars have extended the notion of peer production beyond online communities. Benkler (2017) applies it to a broad set of new cooperative practices: crowdsourcing, online labor markets, prize systems and open collaborative innovation. He argues that peer production transforms the nature of production and management, combining three main elements: decentralized problem-solving, multiple motivations (including prosocial behavior beyond economic profits) and separating governance and management from property and contract. Peer production thus extends beyond the current boundary of the firm, transforming market-based institutions and the foundations of economic growth (Benkler 2017). … Many people working on peer production initiatives act voluntarily without a formal contract and salary (e.g., online communities). New commons and collective action scholars call for novel forms of reward distribution based on “commoning” (De Angelis 2017). — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 156

Categorization

• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 156
• XREF: connects to: Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 186; Monopoly capitalism destroys the very notion of property while retaining its form; Capitalism breaks with prior production yet continues domination over objects — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1602

Related

• Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 186
• Monopoly capitalism destroys the very notion of property while retaining its form #corroborates (0.75)
• Capitalism breaks with prior production yet continues domination over objects #corroborates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1602