Changing mobile work through changing lifestyles

The monopolistic positions of app-platform giants, such as Uber and Grab, partly lie with their power of engineering new lifestyles and perceptions about social relations. The platform economy is as much an economic project as a cultural one. In this latest instalment of MoLab Conversations, Erik Forman (PhD candidate in anthropology at City University of New York, and co-founder of The Drivers Cooperative) envisions how cooperatives can aim to reverse commercialised transactions back to social interactions.