This article, based on a 6-month cross-national ethnography conducted in France and Italy, aims at contributing to comparative debates on the representation of platform workers. The study takes the cases of both traditional and alternative actors that currently represent platform workers. In particular, by investigating both trade unions and grassroots groups, research findings show the gap between discursive and effective representation in the two European countries studied. Drawing on Hyman and Gumbrell-McCormick’s concept of ‘variable geometry of resistance’, we discuss how these gaps are wider or narrower depending on to what extent – in the two countries and in the studied organizations – there is capacity to build both solidarity in difference and alliances between traditional and alternative actors.

本文基于在法国和意大利进行的为期6个月的跨国民族志研究，旨在为平台工作者代表制的比较辩论做出贡献。该研究以当前代表平台工作者的传统参与者和替代参与者为例。特别是，通过对工会和基层组织的调查，研究结果表明，在所研究的两个欧洲国家中，话语权和有效代表权之间存在差距。借助Hyman和Gumbrell-McCormick的“可变阻力几何”概念，我们讨论了这些差距是如何变大还是变窄，这取决于两国和研究组织在多大程度上有能力建立团结一致的差异传统与另类参与者之间的联盟。