食うか食われるか：日本のプラットフォーム経済のリスクと機会へのギグ労働者の交渉
| Project/Area Number |
23KF0218
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 外国 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
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| Research Institution | Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
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Principal Investigator |
毛利 嘉孝 東京藝術大学, 大学院国際芸術創造研究科, 教授 (70304821)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OSKARSON KINDSTRAND KARL HENNING LOVE 東京藝術大学, 大学院国際芸術創造研究科, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-11-15 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
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| Keywords | platform economy / gig work / algorithmic labo / migration / ethnography / organized labor / contemporary Japan / generation-Z |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This project proposes to study the growing cultural and economic significance of Japan’s platform economy from the perspective of the workers drawn to these new and largely unregulated forms of employment. Tokyo-based workers sought to wield the Covid-19 pandemic into an opportunity for collective bargaining with the tech giant, garnering media attention by drawing on a distinctly Japanese repertoire of street protest on behalf of the lumpen ranks of the “precariat.” My ethnography captures the challenges faced by such endeavors to organize gig workers against their algorithmic employers.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Love Oskarson Kindstrand has been intensely focused on writing since last spring: first on completing the book manuscript based on his dissertation and, increasingly since the winter period, on developing the theoretical parts of his new project on "algorithmic labor." This latter project was also described in his original JSPS application and now takes up most of his time. This has included (1) ethnographic fieldwork both with couriers in different areas of Tokyo, and at industry events for tech and policy innovation around mobile app marketplaces like Uber. It has also included (2) participating in a workshop series and conference on "neo-feudalism" at the University of Chicago. Finally, (3)Kindstrand have published several written pieces (non-peer reviewed) developing his perspective.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Love Oskarson Kindstrand has transitioned fully to completing the research project outlined in his original application to JSPS. The project has evolved in that it is now less focused on ethnographic descriptions of distinctly Japanese conditions, and more on theoretical and speculative concerns that puts his work in conversation with the growing body of research on work in the platform economy. Meanwhile, He has explored specifically Japan-related themes of the same work through a series of interviews with activists and writers engaged with the so-called “Toyoko kids” phenomenon and published I do miss teaching and am also dedicating time to surveying and applying for academic job openings on both sides of the Pacific.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The current academic year will be a crucial transition period for Kindstrand and his foremost goal is to find a permanent research and/or teaching position at a Japanese or North American university while also seeing through the two separate research projects begun (and largely completed) during his first year as a postdoctoral fellow. One aspect of his remaining time as a fellow that he struggles to envisage is the public programming he proposed at his host institution: there is a certain “cutting edge” nature to his research topic that makes it challenging to invite other researchers from different disciplines to productive discussion. Kindstrand is planning to organize a limited series of symposia where he engages and moderates discussion with invited speakers on related themes.
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