Building labour power in the platform economy: A comparative analysis of worker struggles in German and Norwegian food and grocery delivery
比较分析柏林和奥斯陆的配送工人如何结合不同权力资源进行抗争，揭示平台工作组织模式对工人组织的影响及制度环境的作用。
Abstract This study undertakes a comparative analysis of delivery workers’ struggles in Norway and Germany. Through the theoretical lens of the power resources approach, we analyse how delivery workers in Berlin and Oslo combine associational, structural, institutional, coalitional and discursive power resources, responding to different institutionalised frameworks of industrial relations. We make three contributions to debates on worker agency and resistance in the platform economy. First, we show that delivery workers need to actively combine different power resources to overcome barriers to organising and exercising structural power, resulting from platforms’ model of work organisation. Second, we highlight the role of institutional contexts in shaping workers’ collective organising strategies. Finally, our analysis stresses that the power resources that food delivery workers have built are often contested and circumvented by counter‐practices from the platform companies.