Rediscovering the cash nexus, again: Subsumption and the labour–capital relation in platform work

• Published in: Capital & class Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 541 - 552
• Main Author: Joyce, Simon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Capital; Capitalism; Determinism; Forces and relations of production; Labor; Marxism; Modes of production; Personality development; Resistance; Social relations; Terminology; Work; Workers; subsumption; labour-capital relation; platform worker resistance; platform work; cash nexus

This article proposes a re-theorisation of the main social relations of platform work, based on two concepts drawn from Marx: subsumption of labour and the cash nexus. Platform work research to date is heavily empirical in character, with little theoretical development. As a result, the social relat...