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A vehicle for valorising the labour power of commuting: The politics of mobility fixing in Shanghai's Dockless Public Bike Sharing Sector
Journal of Transport Geography ( IF 5.899 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-07 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103129
Justin Spinney , Wen-I Lin

This paper seeks to contribute to ongoing debates around the politics of hybrid mobilities, smart cities, surveillance capitalism and mobility fixing. Based on a set of qualitative interviews with key stakeholders and secondary sources, the paper uses the emergence of dockless public bike sharing in Shanghai between 2016 and 2018 as its case study. In order to explain the emergence of dockless PBSS and illustrate our contention that this system seeks to create surplus value from the work of mobility (in this case cycle commuting), we examine the processes of valorisation that have occurred in order to both position PBSS as a worthy activity (and therefore remunerate participants affectively) and produce use values for the data generated by users. In doing so we also highlight the ways in which these processes of valorisation seek to ensure that the mobility work of users is not aligned with the products of that labour in order to avoid calls for this mobility work to be remunerated as wage labour (which would reduce any surplus value extraction). Ultimately we argue that these processes of valorisation are not only invasive, but exclusionary in that they prioritise select aspects of social practice that address matters of (governmental) concern, rather than a more rounded interpretation. We argue that there is an urgent need to recognise mobility practices beyond registers that simply prepare the ground for their marketisation.



中文翻译:

一种提升通勤劳动力价值的工具:上海无桩公共自行车共享部门的流动性修复政治

本文旨在为围绕混合交通、智慧城市、监控资本主义和移动修复的政治争论做出贡献。基于对主要利益相关者和二手资料的一系列定性访谈,本文以 2016 年至 2018 年上海出现的无桩公共自行车共享作为案例研究。为了解释无桩 PBSS 的出现并说明我们的论点,即该系统试图从流动性工作(在这种情况下为循环通勤)中创造剩余价值,我们检查了已经发生的价值化过程,以便将 PBSS 定位为一项有价值的活动(并因此有效地奖励参与者)并为用户生成的数据产生使用价值。在这样做时,我们还强调了这些价值化过程寻求确保用户的移动工作与该劳动的产品不一致的方式,以避免要求将这种移动工作作为工资劳动获得报酬(这将减少任何剩余价值提取)。最终,我们认为这些价值化过程不仅是侵入性的,而且是排他性的,因为它们优先考虑解决(政府)关注问题的社会实践的特定方面,而不是更全面的解释。我们认为,迫切需要认识到登记册之外的流动性做法,这些做法只是为其市场化做准备。

更新日期:2021-07-07
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