Simon Joyce
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Joyce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Joyce |
| SIGNATURE | JOYCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0909-9791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective
Labour unrest by platform workers is a growing global phenomenon, but several questions require deeper understanding. What motivates platform labour unrest? Which actors and strategies are involved? How does this vary across regions? Systematic answers are hindered by the lack of large datasets. Uniquely, this article analyses a global dataset comprising 1271 instances of platform labour unrest. It reveals two main dimensions of platform labour s…
Mutualism, class composition, and the reshaping of worker organisation in platform work and the gig economy
This article contributes an understanding of mutualism as a foundational element in emergent worker collectivism. We challenge mainstream institutionalist accounts in industrial relations, especially from the Global North, that downplay processes of bottom-up regeneration of working-class organisation. We discuss compositional accounts of class formation and examine previous understandings of mutualism, then apply our conceptual framework to evid…
New social relations of digital technology and the future of work
This introduction sets out the context for the Special Issue and offers an in‐depth reflection on key themes addressed by our contributors. The Special Issue aims to place the social relations of production at the centre of debates about technology and the future of work, and create space for greater critical reflection on what it means to go ‘beyond technological determinism’. We identify ways in which aspects of technological determinism contin…
Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy
The article develops a novel conceptualisation of labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, extending current understandings in two ways. First, we situate platform work historically, in the longue durée of paid work under capitalism. Secondly, we introduce a consideration of social structure into debates on union practices often framed in terms of agency. Building on Silver and the Webbs, we highlight the importance in platform w…
Labor Unrest and the Future of Work
A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms
This paper presents findings from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest, a database of platform worker protest events around the world which gathers data from online news media reports and other online sources. For the period January 2017 to July 2020, we identified 1,271 instances of worker protest in four platform sectors: ride-hailing, food delivery, courier services and grocery delivery. Our results show that the single most important ca…
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
Rediscovering the cash nexus, again
This article proposes a re-theorisation of the main social relations of platform work, based on two concepts drawn from Marx: subsumption of labour and the cash nexus. Platform work research to date is heavily empirical in character, with little theoretical development. As a result, the social relations of platform work are treated descriptively, using ad hoc or common-sense categories, or platforms’ own terminology. This under-theorisation leads…
Black box or hidden abode? The expansion and exposure of platform work managerialism
This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box. An important new form of managerialism is being revealed which is specific to what Moore and Joyce argue to be a very observable, and also widely contested, platform management model (PMM). Marx’s ‘hidden abode’ is a more appropriate metaphor than a black box, thus, given em…
The perverse presentism of rainbow plaques
In 2018, the York Civic Trust in the United Kingdom initiated a welcome extension of the national “blue plaque” project of commemorating significant historical figures by installing the first of a
Past, Present, and Pornography
Past, Present, and Pornography Simon Joyce (bio) Early on in The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England (1966), Steven Marcus lays down a marker of methodological principle with the declaration that he will not “play the easy game of ‘showing up the past,’” a statement that raises the question of what relationship between present and past he is suggesting instead (12–13). One possibility arrives v…
On or About 1901
TW ^ Tith the turn into a new century and millennium, a number of critical texts have offered up a reexamination of the defining characteristics and legacies of the Victorian period. Such revisionist efforts have, however, consistently run up against the stumbling block of the Bloomsbury Group and their immediate reaction to a past they felt had shaped both them and their generation. Arguably, theirs is a view set the terms for thinking about the…
Black box or hidden abode? The expansion and exposure of platform work managerialism
This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box. An important new form of managerialism is being revealed which is specific to what Moore and Joyce argue to be a very observable, and also widely contested, platform management model (PMM). Marx’s ‘hidden abode’ is a more appropriate metaphor than a black box, thus, given em…
Rediscovering the cash nexus, again
This article proposes a re-theorisation of the main social relations of platform work, based on two concepts drawn from Marx: subsumption of labour and the cash nexus. Platform work research to date is heavily empirical in character, with little theoretical development. As a result, the social relations of platform work are treated descriptively, using ad hoc or common-sense categories, or platforms’ own terminology. This under-theorisation leads…
Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective
Labour unrest by platform workers is a growing global phenomenon, but several questions require deeper understanding. What motivates platform labour unrest? Which actors and strategies are involved? How does this vary across regions? Systematic answers are hindered by the lack of large datasets. Uniquely, this article analyses a global dataset comprising 1271 instances of platform labour unrest. It reveals two main dimensions of platform labour s…
New social relations of digital technology and the future of work
This introduction sets out the context for the Special Issue and offers an in‐depth reflection on key themes addressed by our contributors. The Special Issue aims to place the social relations of production at the centre of debates about technology and the future of work, and create space for greater critical reflection on what it means to go ‘beyond technological determinism’. We identify ways in which aspects of technological determinism contin…
Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy
The article develops a novel conceptualisation of labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, extending current understandings in two ways. First, we situate platform work historically, in the longue durée of paid work under capitalism. Secondly, we introduce a consideration of social structure into debates on union practices often framed in terms of agency. Building on Silver and the Webbs, we highlight the importance in platform w…
The perverse presentism of rainbow plaques
In 2018, the York Civic Trust in the United Kingdom initiated a welcome extension of the national “blue plaque” project of commemorating significant historical figures by installing the first of a
On or About 1901
TW ^ Tith the turn into a new century and millennium, a number of critical texts have offered up a reexamination of the defining characteristics and legacies of the Victorian period. Such revisionist efforts have, however, consistently run up against the stumbling block of the Bloomsbury Group and their immediate reaction to a past they felt had shaped both them and their generation. Arguably, theirs is a view set the terms for thinking about the…
On or About 1901
TW ^ Tith the turn into a new century and millennium, a number of critical texts have offered up a reexamination of the defining characteristics and legacies of the Victorian period. Such revisionist efforts have, however, consistently run up against the stumbling block of the Bloomsbury Group and their immediate reaction to a past they felt had shaped both them and their generation. Arguably, theirs is a view set the terms for thinking about the…
Past, Present, and Pornography
Past, Present, and Pornography Simon Joyce (bio) Early on in The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England (1966), Steven Marcus lays down a marker of methodological principle with the declaration that he will not “play the easy game of ‘showing up the past,’” a statement that raises the question of what relationship between present and past he is suggesting instead (12–13). One possibility arrives v…
Black box or hidden abode? The expansion and exposure of platform work managerialism
This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box. An important new form of managerialism is being revealed which is specific to what Moore and Joyce argue to be a very observable, and also widely contested, platform management model (PMM). Marx’s ‘hidden abode’ is a more appropriate metaphor than a black box, thus, given em…
The perverse presentism of rainbow plaques
In 2018, the York Civic Trust in the United Kingdom initiated a welcome extension of the national “blue plaque” project of commemorating significant historical figures by installing the first of a
Rediscovering the cash nexus, again
This article proposes a re-theorisation of the main social relations of platform work, based on two concepts drawn from Marx: subsumption of labour and the cash nexus. Platform work research to date is heavily empirical in character, with little theoretical development. As a result, the social relations of platform work are treated descriptively, using ad hoc or common-sense categories, or platforms’ own terminology. This under-theorisation leads…
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms
This paper presents findings from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest, a database of platform worker protest events around the world which gathers data from online news media reports and other online sources. For the period January 2017 to July 2020, we identified 1,271 instances of worker protest in four platform sectors: ride-hailing, food delivery, courier services and grocery delivery. Our results show that the single most important ca…
Mutualism, class composition, and the reshaping of worker organisation in platform work and the gig economy
This article contributes an understanding of mutualism as a foundational element in emergent worker collectivism. We challenge mainstream institutionalist accounts in industrial relations, especially from the Global North, that downplay processes of bottom-up regeneration of working-class organisation. We discuss compositional accounts of class formation and examine previous understandings of mutualism, then apply our conceptual framework to evid…
New social relations of digital technology and the future of work
This introduction sets out the context for the Special Issue and offers an in‐depth reflection on key themes addressed by our contributors. The Special Issue aims to place the social relations of production at the centre of debates about technology and the future of work, and create space for greater critical reflection on what it means to go ‘beyond technological determinism’. We identify ways in which aspects of technological determinism contin…
Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy
The article develops a novel conceptualisation of labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, extending current understandings in two ways. First, we situate platform work historically, in the longue durée of paid work under capitalism. Secondly, we introduce a consideration of social structure into debates on union practices often framed in terms of agency. Building on Silver and the Webbs, we highlight the importance in platform w…
Labor Unrest and the Future of Work
Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective
Labour unrest by platform workers is a growing global phenomenon, but several questions require deeper understanding. What motivates platform labour unrest? Which actors and strategies are involved? How does this vary across regions? Systematic answers are hindered by the lack of large datasets. Uniquely, this article analyses a global dataset comprising 1271 instances of platform labour unrest. It reveals two main dimensions of platform labour s…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Art (4 works)