Following years of declining labour activism, militant forms of worker mobilization have recently emerged in the Italian platform economy and logistics sector, exhibiting novel forms of organization and action repertoires. This article investigates two cases which have been ongoing since 2011, namely mobilizations by logistics porters and food delivery couriers. Both cases seem puzzling since workers have mobilized under circumstances normally associated with non-mobilization, meaning workplaces characterized by technological innovation and absent or ineffective trade unions. How have these mobilizations occurred? We argue that these workers successfully overcame such circumstances by relying on resources and opportunities related to their workplace and external to it, which they have been able to create and develop over several years. We gathered data from semi-structured interviews with workers, union representatives and lawyers, and participated at political meetings, strikes and protest events in four Italian cities between 2018 and 2019.

经过多年的劳工积极性下降，最近在意大利平台经济和物流领域出现了好战的工人动员形式，展现出新颖的组织形式和行动方式。本文调查了自2011年以来一直在发生的两个案例，即后勤搬运工和食品快递员的动员。这两种情况似乎令人困惑，因为工人通常是在与不动员有关的情况下动员的，这意味着以技术创新为特征的工作场所以及缺乏或无效的工会。这些动员是如何发生的？我们认为，这些工人依靠与工作场所相关的资源和机会以及外部的机会成功地克服了这种情况，他们已经在过去的几年中创造和发展了这些资源和机会。