Platform Capitalism Experimental Laboratories and the Struggles for the Regulation

This article will address the recent configurations of the world of labour in the era of informational financial capitalism. More specifically, it will analyse the emergence of and conflicts surrounding so-called uberised work, outlining the more general determinations that contributed to its emergence, approaching uberisation as a laboratory for experimenting with labour and highlighting its similarities with the protoform of capitalism. The article will also present selected statements taken from interviews with delivery riders and drivers, as well as secondary data from important research conducted on the subject. Finally, it will discuss the institutional clashes surrounding the regulation and deregulation of uberisation.