Among the new platform-mediated work, the food-delivery rider is the one that has gained the most public visibility. In the academic debate, a growing interdisciplinary literature has studied riders in reference to broad socioeconomic processes, such as the crisis of the wage institution and the so-called algorithmic management. This dissertation investigates the work of the rider as a specific occupation with an open structure, attempting to shed light on the heterogeneity of this occupational space. The intuition from which the research moves is that the encounter between a "zone of uncertainty of social space" (Bourdieu 1998), such as an occupation that is poorly standardized on a practical level even before the legal one, and a set of very heterogeneous social trajectories, has produced a high internal differentiation in the work practice. That is, different ways of doing and giving meaning to this job, which we will outline in a final typology. The study investigates the actual practices and the material work underlying this profession, moving within three main theoretical horizons: the sociology of the professions, theories of practices - in particular, a dispositional approach - and STSs that have investigated the role of technology in organizational processes. From a methodological point of view, the dissertation is based on a mixed-methods research carried out in Milan in 2020, centered on a seven-month "observant participation" (Wacquant 2010), as well as on the use of standard observational instruments - a survey to 130 riders - and non-standard ones - 21 biographical interviews to riders, interviews to managers of platforms, restaurants, dispatchers.
Fra i nuovi lavori mediati da piattaforma, il rider di food-delivery è quello che ha ottenuto la maggior visibilità pubblica. Nel dibattito accademico, una crescente letteratura interdisciplinare ha studiato i rider in riferimento a processi socioeconomici di ampia portata, come la crisi dell’istituzione salario e il cosiddetto management algoritmico. Questa dissertazione indaga il lavoro del rider come un’occupazione specifica e dalla struttura aperta, tentando di fare luce sull’eterogeneità di questo spazio occupazionale. L’intuizione da cui muove la ricerca è che l’incontro fra una “zona d’incertezza dello spazio sociale” (Bourdieu 1998), com’è un’occupazione poco standardizzata su un piano pratico prima ancora che giuridico, e un insieme di traiettorie sociali molto eterogeneo, abbia prodotto un’elevata differenziazione interna alla pratica lavorativa. Ovvero, modi diversi di fare e di attribuire significato a questo mestiere, che vengono schematizzati in una tipologia conclusiva. Lo studio indaga le pratiche effettive e il lavoro materiale alla base di questa occupazione, muovendosi entro tre principali orizzonti teorici: la sociologia delle professioni, le teorie delle pratiche – in particolare, un approccio disposizionale – e gli STS che hanno indagato il ruolo della tecnologia nei processi organizzativi. Da un punto di vista metodologico, la dissertazione si basa su una ricerca mixed-methods svolta a Milano nel 2020, incentrata su una «partecipazione osservante» (Wacquant 2010) di sette mesi, nonché sull’impiego di strumenti di osservazione standard – un questionario a 130 rider – e non standard – 21 interviste biografiche a rider, interviste a manager di piattaforme, ristoranti, dispatcher.
BONIFACIO, FRANCESCO, EASY, RIDER? PRATICHE, SAPERI E TRAITTORIE DI UNA PROFESSIONE EMERGENTE, COLOMBO, FAUSTO, DE BENEDITTIS, MARIO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano:Ciclo XXXIV [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/285876]
EASY, RIDER? PRATICHE, SAPERI E TRAITTORIE DI UNA PROFESSIONE EMERGENTE
Bonifacio, Francesco
2022
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Among the new platform-mediated work, the food-delivery rider is the one that has gained the most public visibility. In the academic debate, a growing interdisciplinary literature has studied riders in reference to broad socioeconomic processes, such as the crisis of the wage institution and the so-called algorithmic management. This dissertation investigates the work of the rider as a specific occupation with an open structure, attempting to shed light on the heterogeneity of this occupational space. The intuition from which the research moves is that the encounter between a "zone of uncertainty of social space" (Bourdieu 1998), such as an occupation that is poorly standardized on a practical level even before the legal one, and a set of very heterogeneous social trajectories, has produced a high internal differentiation in the work practice. That is, different ways of doing and giving meaning to this job, which we will outline in a final typology. The study investigates the actual practices and the material work underlying this profession, moving within three main theoretical horizons: the sociology of the professions, theories of practices - in particular, a dispositional approach - and STSs that have investigated the role of technology in organizational processes. From a methodological point of view, the dissertation is based on a mixed-methods research carried out in Milan in 2020, centered on a seven-month "observant participation" (Wacquant 2010), as well as on the use of standard observational instruments - a survey to 130 riders - and non-standard ones - 21 biographical interviews to riders, interviews to managers of platforms, restaurants, dispatchers.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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