Transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft have drawn scrutiny for the way they have upended urban transportation systems and heightened the precarity of taxi drivers. Less attention has been paid to their implications for democratic workplaces. This article provides a comparative study of Uber and Lyft's impacts on taxi worker cooperatives in three cities: Philadelphia, Denver, and Austin. Drawing on interviews with drivers, regulators, and other transportation stakeholders, we observe three major effects. First, TNCs have opened doors for cooperatives by undercutting taxi oligopolies and lowering regulatory barriers to entry. Second, they have intensified market pressures that make it difficult for start‐up co‐ops to survive. Finally, competition from TNCs has led co‐ops to shift resources away from democratic decision making and toward financial bottom lines. These findings paint a complex picture of workplace democracy's potential and limits as a response to the sharing economy's competitive and neoliberal underbelly.

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出租车合作社与Uber：在共享经济中为工作场所民主而奋斗

诸如Uber和Lyft之类的运输网络公司（TNC）已对他们颠覆城市交通系统和提高出租车司机的危险性的方式进行了审查。人们对它们对民主工作场所的影响的关注较少。本文对Uber和Lyft对三个城市的出租车工人合作社的影响进行了比较研究：费城，丹佛和奥斯丁。通过对驾驶员，监管者和其他运输利益相关者的采访，我们观察到了三个主要影响。首先，跨国公司通过减少出租车的寡头垄断和降低准入门槛来为合作社敞开了大门。其次，他们加剧了市场压力，这使初创合作社难以生存。最后，跨国公司的竞争已导致合作社将资源从民主决策转移到财务底线。这些发现描绘了工作场所民主的潜力和局限的复杂图景，以回应共享经济的竞争优势和新自由主义的弱点。