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Rules of engagement in the gig economy lead to a parallel labor market characterized by job uncertainty and lack of formal employment regulations. In addition, platform companies take full advantage of the vulnerabilities of individuals and the global migration flows that feed this workforce by intertwining with informal labor markets and illicit working practices. Fieldwork in both case studies reveals a peculiar form of labor exploitation and abuse that we already called ‘digital caporalato,’ which disproportionately affects migrant workers. Starting from empirical cases, the contribution presents and analyzes three different forms of gangmastering that take place inside or outside the boundaries of the apps and that involve different organizational practices. These findings point to a process of refeudalization of labor, which some authors have previously identified with the resurgence of premodern patterns of labor organization.\n\nIn his chapter, Giorgio Pirina analyzes the constant assembling of working and non-working times by platform-mediated food delivery workers and the contradictory outcomes of the algorithmic managerial model of work. This service (but more in general the platform economy) is framed as a time-space-energy field: it is an energy-intensive because of mechanism such as rating, ranking and is based (mostly) on the fast-paced piecework; the space variable is central, as the urban contextual specificities (overcrowded streets, geo-localization failure, public transportation issues, etc.), channel the work performance and increase the couriers’ energy expenditure; the time variable is longitudinal, as couriers must be constantly on-time (and online) to ensure the best orders assignment. Regarding migrant labor, it is also necessary to consider another temporality that is the residence permit, which, for example, determines how much time migrants can work. Against this background, the ‘bindingflexibility’ is defined as follows: the flexibility that formally gives to the workers the possibility to decide when and how much work, but, according to the time-space-energy dynamic, the inherent logic of digital platforms’ algorithm channels their possibilities of choice regarding the organization of working and non-working times. In order to investigate this topic, he carried out qualitative-ethnographic research in the historic center of Venice between January and September 2022, using participant observation, shadowing, semi-structured interviews, and informal conversations with research participants. His fieldwork highlights features, and tendencies of the food delivery sector in Venice and to sketch a picture of the migrant couriers, in particular their living and working conditions.\n\n1 INTRODUCTION: MIGRANT LABOUR IN THE PLATFORM\n\n13","previous_page":12,"next_page":14}