The assembly line at Ford and transportation platforms: A historical comparison of labour process reorganisation
比较20世纪初福特工厂的移动装配线与21世纪交通平台的发展，指出两者均非技术创新，而是通过重组劳动过程来加强资本控制、提高工作强度和剥削程度，揭示平台经济的旧有本质。
Abstract This paper provides a historical comparison of the introduction of the moving assembly line at Ford Motor factories in the early 20th century, with the development of transportation platforms in the 21st century. The paper pushes back against the argument that either of these cases was based upon technological innovation, arguing that in neither case was new technology developed, but rather existing machinery was made use of. The paper argues that each case was built upon the reorganisation of the labour process, to increase the control that capital held over the labour process, increase the intensity of work and increase the levels of exploitation and surplus value extraction that workers are subjected to. By demonstrating this, it removes the technological façade that contemporary platforms hide behind, showing that they do not represent a qualitative break from the past, but rather the repackaging of old forms of work intensification.