Regulating Flexibility: Uber's Platform as a Technological Work Arrangement1
When initiating its Norwegian operations, the transportation platform Uber adjusted its business model to the Norwegian regulation of the taxi market by focusing on its high-end offering, Uber Black, organized through limousine companies who employ the drivers and own the cars.The Uber Black drivers...
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| description | When initiating its Norwegian operations, the transportation platform Uber adjusted its business model to the Norwegian regulation of the taxi market by focusing on its high-end offering, Uber Black, organized through limousine companies who employ the drivers and own the cars.The Uber Black drivers in Oslo are classified as employees and endowed with a substantially flexible work arrangement. Based on a 'traveling ethnography' among Uber Black drivers in Oslo, this article conceptualizes Uber's digital platform as a technological work arrangement. The analysis shows that while the platform is experienced as an opaque form of management that limits the drivers' formal flexibility, the effects of the technological work arrangement is contingent on the drivers' formal work arrangement and the characteristics of the Uber Black market in Oslo. |
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| subjects | Black markets Business models Drivers licenses Employees Ethnography Flexibility Flexible hours Job characteristics Labor market Licenses Markets Regulation Ride sharing services Self employment Taxicabs Technology Transportation Unionization Work Working conditions |
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