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"The TWC is a network of progressive and left-wing workers throughout the tech industry who are trying to organize and bring the labor movement into Silicon Valley, particularly parts of it that have not been grounds for labor organizing thus far. You can consider us to be a kind of workers center, that facilitates the building of new communities and new networks that are separate and in opposition to the business interests of the tech industry."

"s the history of crises has shown, people and people-based organisations react against the devastating effects of changes and persist in the search for innovative solutions. New ideas and practices have been proposed; there have been experiments with new forms of organizations and ways of working. Some of them, such as the "sharing economy", were immediately captured by emergent, digitally-based capitalist companies, but others created more ambitious and innovative initiatives. In recent years, certain concepts and experiences have interconnected with one another and existing initiatives. New forms of solidarity, reciprocity, property and collective governance are being analyzed, reimagined and promoted through the logic of the Commons, Platform Cooperativism and the Social and Solidarity Economy."

Intervention de Kristy Milland, de Turkernation, lors de la conférence sur le Platform Cooperativism. Turkernation est un forum pour que les travailleurs d'Amazon Mechanical Turk puissent échanger sur leurs conditions de travail et s'organiser collectivement.

"As leaders consider this wide range of possibilities, they have a second priority, which is to develop an action plan. That plan should include a view of both tactical and strategic opportunities for their companies, a blueprint for building an organization in which people work much more closely with machines, and a commitment to helping shape the important, ongoing debate about automation and the future of work."

"If we expect Facebook users grievances to be heard, a comprehensive and wide-ranging strategy is necessary to boost their rights. Community, organization, and the selection of effective tools are the three pillars of collective action."

"We've seen a number of platform cooperatives, which integrate the practices of cooperatives in digital platforms by democratizing control and ownership, crop up in the U.S. These organizations are formed with the goal of countering extractive platforms that promote digital capitalism. While these platforms are often started in order to create a cooperative model, in Old Europe, the road appears to go in the other direction. It consists of cooperation between global digital platforms and bottom-up initiatives by community enterprises, located in small villages in Italy - away from the bright lights of Smart Cities."

Un exemple de création de plateforme coopérative dans les services à la personne : "To counter poor labor practices, gig workers and entrepreneurs are now taking matters into their own hands by launching their own digital platforms for various services. Called "platform cooperatives," these businesses bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance, to the digital world. This June, Cruz and five others formed Brightly Cleaning, a worker-owned cooperative, with support from two social service organizations based in New York City, New York: The La Colmena Staten Island Community Job Center and the Center for Family Life. Brightly Cleaning soon became one of the first members of the new platform cooperative Up & Go."

"Civil society of Latin America and the Caribbean must understand that the sharing economy means to rebuild communities where people are willing to share, or exchange, their time, financial resources and knowledge to strengthen and empower organizations. "

Pour les auteurs, la digitalisation amène à sept changements majeurs, qu'il faut bien comprendre pour appréhender le monde du travail tel qu'il se profile : la segmentation d'anciennes tâches et le regroupement de nouvelles ; le passage de postes clairement définis au "mode projet" ; le passage du salariat au travail indépendant ; la perte relative d'importance des diplômes ; le passage de syndicats aux "communautés" digitales pour s'organiser ; une dynamique d'investissement complémentaire dans le travail et le capital, au lieu de la substitution du capital au travail ; le passage de l'entreprise aux "écosystèmes".

Compte-rendu de la Open Co-op conference de Londres. "The two-day event brought together leading voices from the co-operative, open source, and collaborative economy movements as well as organized labor. The gathering featured a lot of experts on co-operative development, law, software platforms, economics and community activism."

"In this podcast, we examine how technology has affected employment and incomes in manufacturing and other sectors and whether automation could widen the gap between high- and low-income jobs. "

Podcast de l'Institut McKinsey qui explore les impacts potentiels (et différenciés) de l'automatisation en Chine, en Europe et en Inde sur l'économie.

"The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. No less significant than the jobs that will be displaced are the jobs that will change-and those that will be created. New research by the McKinsey Global institute suggests that roughly 15% of the global workforce could be displaced by 2030 in a midpoint scenario, but that the jobs likely created will make up for those lost. There is an important proviso: that economies sustain high economic growth and dynamism, coupled with strong trends that will drive demand for work. Even so, between 75 million to 375 million people globally may need to switch occupational categories by 2030, depending on how quickly automation is adopted."