Regulating Platforms in the Passenger Transport Sector in Portugal and Spain

Different Strategies, Different Coalitions

Bibliographic Data

ID4103142
AuthorsLuis André Carraça Guerreiro, Luis Guerreiro (0000-0003-0594-2315), Paulo Marques (0000-0001-7666-4493), Paulo Miguel Dos Santos Marques
Year2023
Volume130
Issue130
Pages157-190
Publication date2023-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista crítica de ciências sociais/Revista crítica de ciências sociais (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0254-1106 • E-ISSN: 2182-7435
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/rccs.14486
OpenAlexW4381739648
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

Digital Platform Work (DPW) is part of a new phase of capitalism, in which monopolistic digital platforms use algorithms to mediate labour supply and demand. As DPW grows, the share of atypical workers in the labour market increases and European Union states are pressed to regulate it, but the strategies adopted are different. This is the case with the regulation of DPW in the passenger transport sector approved by the governments of Portugal and Spain. This paper makes a comparative analysis of these case studies based on parliamentary debates and media reports. We argue that the centre-left parties which led the governments in both countries, adopted a distinct regulation strategy because they each have specific conceptions of solidarity

Business · Capitalism · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · European union · Industrial organization · Market economy · Monopolistic competition · Monopoly · Passenger transport · Political science · Solidarity · Transport engineering · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions