http://peerproduction.net/editsuite New perspectives on the implications of peer production for social change Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:57:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.5 http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issues/issue-6-disruption-and-the-law/essays/disrupting-the-cab-uber-ridesharing-and-the-taxi-industry/#comment-28870 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:14:07 +0000 http://peerproduction.net/?page_id=3569#comment-28870 […] Disrupting the cab: uber, ridesharing and the taxi industry […]

]]> http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issues/issue-6-disruption-and-the-law/essays/disrupting-the-cab-uber-ridesharing-and-the-taxi-industry/#comment-27807 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:33:54 +0000 http://peerproduction.net/?page_id=3569#comment-27807 […] Research on the sharing economy by McGregor, Brown and Glöss shows a certain ‘homophily’ occurs, as a result of which it is often ‘similar “types” of people [who] provide and use these services (in terms of class, education and race)’, especially when a rating system is employed. Uber, for example, enables both customers and drivers to rate one another, and suspends drivers if their scores are not high enough. Finally, it is the microentrepreneurs (who can now be potentially ‘any person’ rather than a specific set of employees) who labour to provide services in the market created by the platform on a freelance, on demand, and frequently precarious basis; who take the risks associated with having lost their rights, benefits and protection as employees; and who, according to this research, often face ‘increased surveillance, deskilling, casualisation and intensification’ of their labour too. […]

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