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Antinomies of the gig economy: The annihilation of space by time or the annihilation of time by space?
Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University.ORCID iD: 0009-0003-6858-871X
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Economics, Geography, Law and Tourism.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6176-3595
Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8796-7756
2024 (English)In: Population, Space and Place, ISSN 1544-8444, E-ISSN 1544-8452, Vol. 30, no 8, article id e2815Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper concerns migrants in Sweden working in various types of on and offline gigwork. It explores how the temporal and spatial flexibility afforded to gig customers ispredicated on temporal and spatial inflexibility for workers. The argument moves discussions beyond relational space by promoting a more fully dialectical view of space that understands it as simultaneously relational, relative, and absolute. Without such a view of space—which understands that space is not always open and fluid but just as often closed and fixed—it is impossible to understand the specific relations of labour that structure gig work, particularly offline gig work in such ways as to provide maximal flexibility for customers. This paper shows that the Marxian adage concerning how, in capitalism, space is annihilated by time, does not always hold. For workers doing cleaning and delivery gig work, the converse is oftentimes truer: time is annihilated by space. Gigworkers—and even more so migrant gig workers crowded in the above‐mentioned industries—experience the annihilation of time by space through the dual mandate that they must be available “just‐in‐time” and “just‐in‐place” to produce the spatiotemporal flexibility upon which the gig companies base their model and their success.

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Wiley , 2024. Vol. 30, no 8, article id e2815
Keywords [en]
flexibility, gig economy, migrant labour, space-time dialectics
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Human Geography
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-52059DOI: 10.1002/psp.2815ISI: 001284871800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85200610676OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-52059DiVA, id: diva2:1887416
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2020-00332Available from: 2024-08-07 Created: 2024-08-07 Last updated: 2024-11-21Bibliographically approved

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