Post‐Legitimate Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8976005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Charles (0000-0003-3274-7240, Miami University Oxford Ohio USA, corresponding author), R Gunderson (0000-0002-3837-0723, Miami University Oxford Ohio USA) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 498-516 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12428 |
| OpenAlex | W4399681292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
We explore the role of moral, cognitive, and pragmatic legitimacy in reproducing the organization of two on‐demand labor platforms for couriers. Labor platforms are ideal cases to explore questions of legitimacy and institutional reproduction because they aspire towards automaticity. Since the 1970s, with the emergence of new production technologies and organizational forms, labor and work scholars have predicted a shift from the use of direct, coercive controls as a method to coordinate activity to more indirect, hegemonic, and normative methods of control. However, we find that in the case of the gig economy, platform firms are refuting the predictions of Post‐Fordist labor scholars, relying upon new forms of direct technological control as well as coercive, indirect market control, as opposed to shared norms and obligations, as methods for coordinating activity. We explore the implications of ‘post‐legitimate’ institutions, as well as the latent moral economy of gig workers as revealed through their critiques of the platform economy
Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Philosophy · Psychology · Sharing Economy and Platforms
Monopoly capital
Labor and monopoly capital
The second industrial divide
Manufacturing Consent
Farewell to the Factory
A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Organizational Control Mechanisms
Managing Legitimacy
Buying Time
The Wealth of Networks
Accepting the Reality of Secular Stagnation
Engineering Culture
Expendable to essential? Changing perceptions of gig workers on Twitter in the onset of Covid-19
White Collar
The Class Matrix
Fast Food, Fast Talk
The Fissured Workplace
The New Imperialism
Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism
Hop to it in the gig economy
British Economy of the Nineteenth Century
Legitimation Crisis? On the Political Contradictions of Financialized Capitalism
The "sharing" economy
Post-legitimacy and post-legitimisation
Gamification
Between mutuality, autonomy and domination
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
Postfordism as a dysfunctional accumulation regime
Work and Identity in an Era of Precarious Employment
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |