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Title: Democratizando la economía de plataforma
Other Titles: Democratising the platform economy
Author: Renau Cano, Melissa  
Fuster Morell, Mayo  
Espelt, Ricard  
Citation: Renau Cano, M. [Melissa], Fuster Morell, M. [Mayo] & Espelt,R, [Ricard]. (2021). Democratizando la economía de plataforma. Oikonomics [en línea], doi:10.7238/o.n15.2102
Abstract: Platforms such as Glovo, Deliveroo and Uber Eats that operate in the field of food delivery have set up in cities all around the world. The expansion of these platforms has had an impact on workers’ rights in what is considered as platform capitalism. Even then, democratic alternatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and digital commons exist. This article analyses the democratic qualities of four alternative food delivery platforms with headquarters in Europe (CoopCycle, CILFé, Crow and Mensakas). On the one hand, the results show that these platforms consider their workers’ rights; that is the main reason why they form an alternative to platform capitalism. On the other hand, the analysis shows that these platforms face important challenges, especially regarding their economic sustainability and scalability.
Keywords: platform economy
riders
gig work
social economy
platform cooperativism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7238/o.n15.2102
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: May-2021
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/  
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