Platform Cooperativism Book
- Book: PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM. Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy. By Trebor Scholz. Editors: Stefanie Ehmsen and Albert Scharenberg. ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG NEW YORK OFFICE, 2016
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See also the entry on the concept and the event: Platform Cooperativism
Contents
Building a Digital Economy We Own. By the Editors........................................................................1
- The Sharing Economy Stops........................................................................................................4
Every Uber has an unter................................................................................................4
New Dependencies and New Command....................................................................5
Generating Profits for the Few.....................................................................................6
Illegality as a Method.....................................................................................................7
- Amazon is Joining the Sharing Economy....................................................................................8
- The Rise of Platform Cooperativism.........................................................................................10
- Toward a Typology of Platform Co-ops....................................................................................14
Cooperatively Owned Online Labor Brokerages and Market Places....................15
City-Owned Platform Cooperatives...........................................................................15
Produser-owned Platforms........................................................................................16
Union-Backed Labor Platforms..................................................................................17
Co-operatives from Within..........................................................................................17
The Platform as Protocol.............................................................................................17
10 Principles for Platform Cooperativism.................................................................18
- The Cooperative Eco System.....................................................................................................21
- For All People................................................................................................................26