The ride-hailing giant Uber has long circumvented labour regulations and commodified its drivers’ labour by existing at the conjuncture of multiple geographies – being simultaneously embedded and disembedded from the places where it operates. In this commentary, we argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised Uber’s ‘conjunctural’ existence and forced the company to become more embedded in the locations where it operates, bringing about a – perhaps temporary – turn towards the decommodification of its drivers’ labour.

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（无）嵌入和（无）商品化：COVID-19，Uber和零工经济的逻辑逻辑

乘车巨头Uber长期规避劳动法规，并通过在多个地区同时存在而将其驾驶员的劳动进行了改造-同时嵌入和从其经营所在地解散。在这篇评论中，我们认为COVID-19大流行已经破坏了Uber的“结膜”存在，并迫使该公司更加扎根于其运营所在的地区，从而导致（也许是暂时的）转向司机劳动的商品化。