Pedro Mendonça
Biographic Data
| ID | 282342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedro Mendonça |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedro |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendonça |
| SIGNATURE | MENDONÇA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heriot-Watt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9061-2443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Too fast to work, too slow to belong
This article investigates how migrant platform workers experience temporal dislocation, a concept we propose as the condition in which time is fragmented and externally governed by algorithmic management and immigration bureaucracy. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research with South Asian food delivery couriers in Lisbon, the study identifies four core mechanisms through which time is structured and controlled: algorithmic temporal governan…
We Are Not All the Same
This article explores how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources, including institutional, associational, structural and mobility power. Drawing on 35 interviews with food delivery couriers, social media data and observations in a British city, this article provides rich empirical evidence on the power resources of groups of gig workers based on their …
The times, are they changing? Examining platform companies' chameleonic labour process as a response to the Spanish Rey Rider
This article investigates the effects of the Spanish initiative to deploy a universal presumption of employment relationship for all platform couriers (Ley Rider). Drawing from 36 semi-structured interviews and several non-participant observations in Spain, this article shows that the impact of this initiative has been positive but limited. The eradication of bogus self-employment is a positive development, as it allows workers to access safety n…
Informalization in gig food delivery in the UK
This article examines the process of informalization of work in platform food delivery work in the UK. Drawing on qualitative data, this article provides new analytical insight into what drives individual formal couriers to both supply and demand informalized sub‐contracted gig work to undocumented migrants, and how a platform company enables informal work practices through permissive HR practices and technology. In doing so, this article shows h…
Disconnecting labour
This article examines how gig economy platform companies, via algorithmic management, shape working conditions and collective organisation of food delivery couriers. Using qualitative data from one case study operating in a city in the United Kingdom, the study captures real‐time intraplatform unilateral changes in algorithmic management to provide increased flexibility for couriers. Findings show algorithmic changes generating a reconfigured, fr…
Digital Marketing Trends
The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation, although it has already been underway in recent years. Currently, digitalization can be observed in several sectors, from services to industry, as well as from micro to large companies. Consequently, digital transformation increasingly assumes an essential role in the development of new business models and business growth. The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) shows Portugal in 19th …
Três leitores de Dostoiévski
Este ensaio apresenta uma leitura de três obras cinematográficas que, de diferentes formas, levaram às telas a ficção de Fiódor Dostoiévski. Os filmes Crime e castigo (1971), de Liev Kulidjánov, O batedor de carteiras (1959), de Robert Bresson, e Taxi Driver (1976), de Martin Scorsese, são analisados e relacionados às narrativas de Crime e castigo e Memórias do subsolo. Dessa maneira, o texto objetiva explicitar a estreita relação que a sétima ar…
Trade union responses to precarious employment
Drawing on a case study on the civil airline industry in Portugal, this article addresses the impact of precarious employment on trade union action and examines the conditions under which trade unions defend precarious workers’ interests. Using a power-resource theoretical framework, findings in this article highlight that cost-cutting employment practices are used strategically by employers to curb collectivisation and trade unionism. In additio…
Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain
This article examines how pressures stemming from the structure and dynamics of supply chains shape employment relations at the workplace level. Using qualitative data from two organisational case studies operating within the same supply chain, it highlights that supply chains can constrain or enhance trade unions' capacity to organise and mobilise. Supply chain rationalisation is found to be a key determinant in the reconfiguration of labour and…
Dostoiévski e Graciliano Ramos
Neste artigo, estabeleço uma comparação entre Fiódor Dostoiévski e Graciliano Ramos. O objetivo principal do texto é demonstrar de que modo a literatura desses escritores se aproxima, a despeito das distâncias geográfica e temporal que os separam. Para tanto, partindo do momento histórico em que ambos produziram, analiso, sobretudo, as obras Memórias do subsolo e Angústia
Era bom que trocássemos umas ideias sobre o assunto”
Technology, especially information and communication technologies, is a central variable in modern propaganda. Propaganda implies someone having powerful means of spreading a message, a possibility guaranteed by technique. This relationship can be drawn under a second form: technology as propagated content. The aim of this paper is to analyze this aspect, but articulating it with the material disposition of technology in everyday life as an also …
Impressões russas da modernidade
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n1p70No presente ensaio, analiso o texto não ficcional que Fiódor Dostoiévski (1821-1881) escreveu ao longo de suas viagens pela Europa em 1862, Notas de inverno sobre impressões de verão (1863) – obra de caráter aparentemente despretensioso e que não obedece ao rigor formal de nenhum gênero literário específico. Em princípio e de forma breve, importa-me destacar a origem da palavra modernidade à luz da …
Tecnología y marketing
Este artículo pretende relacionar tecnología y marketing en los procesos de imaginación y desarrollo de funcionalidades en dispositivos de navegación móvil. Se centra en la actuación de los departamentos empresariales de marketing, y de los trabajadores comerciales en general, como agentes retóricos que tienen un papel clave en los caminos técnicos de construcción del producto. En términos empíricos, se trata de un estudio de caso a una empresa p…
Disconnecting labour
This article examines how gig economy platform companies, via algorithmic management, shape working conditions and collective organisation of food delivery couriers. Using qualitative data from one case study operating in a city in the United Kingdom, the study captures real‐time intraplatform unilateral changes in algorithmic management to provide increased flexibility for couriers. Findings show algorithmic changes generating a reconfigured, fr…
Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain
This article examines how pressures stemming from the structure and dynamics of supply chains shape employment relations at the workplace level. Using qualitative data from two organisational case studies operating within the same supply chain, it highlights that supply chains can constrain or enhance trade unions' capacity to organise and mobilise. Supply chain rationalisation is found to be a key determinant in the reconfiguration of labour and…
We Are Not All the Same
This article explores how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources, including institutional, associational, structural and mobility power. Drawing on 35 interviews with food delivery couriers, social media data and observations in a British city, this article provides rich empirical evidence on the power resources of groups of gig workers based on their …
Tecnología y marketing
Este artículo pretende relacionar tecnología y marketing en los procesos de imaginación y desarrollo de funcionalidades en dispositivos de navegación móvil. Se centra en la actuación de los departamentos empresariales de marketing, y de los trabajadores comerciales en general, como agentes retóricos que tienen un papel clave en los caminos técnicos de construcción del producto. En términos empíricos, se trata de un estudio de caso a una empresa p…
Impressões russas da modernidade
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n1p70No presente ensaio, analiso o texto não ficcional que Fiódor Dostoiévski (1821-1881) escreveu ao longo de suas viagens pela Europa em 1862, Notas de inverno sobre impressões de verão (1863) – obra de caráter aparentemente despretensioso e que não obedece ao rigor formal de nenhum gênero literário específico. Em princípio e de forma breve, importa-me destacar a origem da palavra modernidade à luz da …
Era bom que trocássemos umas ideias sobre o assunto”
Technology, especially information and communication technologies, is a central variable in modern propaganda. Propaganda implies someone having powerful means of spreading a message, a possibility guaranteed by technique. This relationship can be drawn under a second form: technology as propagated content. The aim of this paper is to analyze this aspect, but articulating it with the material disposition of technology in everyday life as an also …
Dostoiévski e Graciliano Ramos
Neste artigo, estabeleço uma comparação entre Fiódor Dostoiévski e Graciliano Ramos. O objetivo principal do texto é demonstrar de que modo a literatura desses escritores se aproxima, a despeito das distâncias geográfica e temporal que os separam. Para tanto, partindo do momento histórico em que ambos produziram, analiso, sobretudo, as obras Memórias do subsolo e Angústia
Trade union responses to precarious employment
Drawing on a case study on the civil airline industry in Portugal, this article addresses the impact of precarious employment on trade union action and examines the conditions under which trade unions defend precarious workers’ interests. Using a power-resource theoretical framework, findings in this article highlight that cost-cutting employment practices are used strategically by employers to curb collectivisation and trade unionism. In additio…
Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain
This article examines how pressures stemming from the structure and dynamics of supply chains shape employment relations at the workplace level. Using qualitative data from two organisational case studies operating within the same supply chain, it highlights that supply chains can constrain or enhance trade unions' capacity to organise and mobilise. Supply chain rationalisation is found to be a key determinant in the reconfiguration of labour and…
Três leitores de Dostoiévski
Este ensaio apresenta uma leitura de três obras cinematográficas que, de diferentes formas, levaram às telas a ficção de Fiódor Dostoiévski. Os filmes Crime e castigo (1971), de Liev Kulidjánov, O batedor de carteiras (1959), de Robert Bresson, e Taxi Driver (1976), de Martin Scorsese, são analisados e relacionados às narrativas de Crime e castigo e Memórias do subsolo. Dessa maneira, o texto objetiva explicitar a estreita relação que a sétima ar…
Digital Marketing Trends
The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation, although it has already been underway in recent years. Currently, digitalization can be observed in several sectors, from services to industry, as well as from micro to large companies. Consequently, digital transformation increasingly assumes an essential role in the development of new business models and business growth. The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) shows Portugal in 19th …
Informalization in gig food delivery in the UK
This article examines the process of informalization of work in platform food delivery work in the UK. Drawing on qualitative data, this article provides new analytical insight into what drives individual formal couriers to both supply and demand informalized sub‐contracted gig work to undocumented migrants, and how a platform company enables informal work practices through permissive HR practices and technology. In doing so, this article shows h…
Disconnecting labour
This article examines how gig economy platform companies, via algorithmic management, shape working conditions and collective organisation of food delivery couriers. Using qualitative data from one case study operating in a city in the United Kingdom, the study captures real‐time intraplatform unilateral changes in algorithmic management to provide increased flexibility for couriers. Findings show algorithmic changes generating a reconfigured, fr…
The times, are they changing? Examining platform companies' chameleonic labour process as a response to the Spanish Rey Rider
This article investigates the effects of the Spanish initiative to deploy a universal presumption of employment relationship for all platform couriers (Ley Rider). Drawing from 36 semi-structured interviews and several non-participant observations in Spain, this article shows that the impact of this initiative has been positive but limited. The eradication of bogus self-employment is a positive development, as it allows workers to access safety n…
We Are Not All the Same
This article explores how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources, including institutional, associational, structural and mobility power. Drawing on 35 interviews with food delivery couriers, social media data and observations in a British city, this article provides rich empirical evidence on the power resources of groups of gig workers based on their …
Too fast to work, too slow to belong
This article investigates how migrant platform workers experience temporal dislocation, a concept we propose as the condition in which time is fragmented and externally governed by algorithmic management and immigration bureaucracy. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research with South Asian food delivery couriers in Lisbon, the study identifies four core mechanisms through which time is structured and controlled: algorithmic temporal governan…
Business (8 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works)