Inclusion through the platform economy? The ‘diverse’ crowd as relative surplus populations and the pauperisation of labour Universiteit Hasselt
The chapter theorises the inclusion of ‘diverse’ workers into global capitalism by means of platform crowdsourcing through the prism of the Marxian notion of ‘relative surplus population’, or the portion of the working-age population who are surplus to the immediate needs of capital for waged labour at any given place and time. These workers constitute a share of the proletariat that is structurally un- or underemployed, in unpaid socially ...