This article examines and theorises the relationships across three distinct forms of labour brokerage emerging in the digital platform labour economy: platform intermediation, ‘skill-making’, and ‘re-outsourcing’. Drawing from a 4-year digital ethnography on online freelancing and platform labour in the Philippines, one of the largest labour supplying countries globally, I pay special attention to how platform labour control emerges as a process that is constituted in the brokerage relationships at multiple scales between global capital, local capital, community, and family units, and emerging organised networks of workers and influencers on social media. The article examines the materiality of platform labour and the local informal economy that give rise to these forms of brokerage. I also describe how brokerage processes set norms and standards in this largely unregulated sector, thereby playing a role in how labour mobility or precarity are made possible and organised. The article seeks to contribute to the knowledge about the digital work system involving a significant number of Filipinos by capturing the situated dialectical power relations of the global spread of platform-mediated labour management.

本文研究并提出了在数字平台劳动力经济中出现的三种不同形式的劳动经纪人之间的关系，并提出了理论基础：平台中介，“技能制造”和“再外包”。菲律宾是全球最大的劳动力供应国之一，其网络在线自由职业和平台劳工的数字民族志为期4年，我特别关注平台劳工控制是如何在多种规模的经纪人关系中形成的全球资本，地方资本，社区和家庭单位之间的关系，以及在社交媒体上新兴的有组织的工人和影响者网络之间的联系。本文研究了导致这些经纪形式的平台劳工和当地非正规经济的重要性。我还描述了经纪流程如何在这个很大程度上不受监管的部门中设定规范和标准，从而在如何实现和组织劳动力流动或不稳定因素方面发挥了作用。本文试图通过捕获平台介导的劳动力管理在全球范围内的分布的辩证权力关系，来为涉及大量菲律宾人的数字工作系统的知识做出贡献。