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Platform Capitalism, Millennials, and an Online Labor Movement? Flexibilization from a Labor Perspective
The paper explores how we see this phenomenon play out through three general trends: workers vying for more control over their schedules and their hours through Fair Workweek Initiatives and other legislative policy changes, workers developing their own online platforms and organizing them in cooperative manners, and workers not traditionally seen as being easily organizable utilizing collective bargaining strategies and also uniting to form new, flexible unions that redefine the very concept at its core. We understand this flexibility as a call for the labor movement’s renewed energy in thinking through new forms and strategies, and we argue that millennial workers’ efforts at resistance demonstrate those new, flexible tactics needed to build a better labor movement, both online and in the streets.