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Could digital platforms be more than just apps for short-term gigs and on-demand jobs?
This book shows how the digital solidarity economy offers a bold alternative, where cooperation, fairness and sustainability reshape work and technology.
Through Latin American case studies, it uncovers innovative business models, governance structures and regulatory experiments, revealing how grassroots initiatives challenge inequalities and environmental pressures. Drawing on rich dialogues between researchers and workers, it connects theory with practice to imagine a future where digital labour empowers communities rather than exploits them.
This is a vital guide for anyone curious about rethinking the rules of work and building digital economies that serve people and planet.
Rafael Grohmann is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto.
María Belén Albornoz is Professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador).
Alessio Bertolini is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
Foreword - Nick Couldry
1. Introduction: Digital Solidarity Economy: Prefiguring Other Tech Futures - María Belén Albornoz, Rafael Grohmann, and Alessio Bertolini
Part 1: Foundations of Digital Solidarity Economy
2. Digital Solidarity Economies in Latin America: historical legacies and public policy pathways - Alexandra Belén Gualavisí Limaico
3. Learnings of Digital Solidarity Economy: Recovering the Past, Looking for Futures - Rafael Grohmann
4. Design of digital infrastructures for Buen Vivir: practices and theories - Alexandre Costa Barbosa and Lívia Ascava
5. Alternative imaginaries and alternative practices: Digital solidarity economies in a repertoire of contention for delivery worker organizing - Lucy Pei
6. The Digital Social Economy and the Political Struggle over the Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of Labour - Eduardo Meneses and Betiana Varas
Part 2: Dimensions of Digital Solidarity Economy
7. Fair work by design? Standards and challenges to ensure fairness in platform cooperatives - Jonas C. L. Valente, Adam Badger, and Alessio Bertolini
8. WTF (Which Tech Futures): Innovation in Argentina's Terms and Conditions - Cecilia Muñoz Cancela
9. Life is Not a Game: The impact of Gamification in Delivery Platforms - Daniel Santini
Part 3: Worker Experiences in the Digital Solidarity Economy
10. Beyond Uber, beyond the taxi: Emergence of hybrid platforms in ride-hailing platforms in Ecuador - Daniel Vizuete Sandoval
11. Señoritas Courier and Platform Cooperativism: the ingenious and constant popular construction - Aline Os
12. Tech Worker Co-ops in Argentina - Denise Kasparian, Julián Rebón and Julieta Grasas
13. Financial inclusion and the digital economy in savings and credit cooperatives in Ecuador - Hugo Jácome Estrella and Marcela Pazán Toledo
14. Conclusions: Research Agenda for Digital Solidarity Economy - Rafael Grohmann and Alessio Bertolini