Abstract

GUERREIRO, Luis André Carraça  and  MARQUES, Paulo Miguel dos Santos. Regulating Platforms in the Passenger Transport Sector in Portugal and Spain: Different Strategies, Different Coalitions. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [online]. 2023, n.130, pp.157-190.  Epub May 31, 2023. ISSN 2182-7435.  https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.14486.

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.

Keywords : digital platforms; labour policy; labour regulation; passenger transport.

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