%0 Journal Article
%T Paying for Free Delivery: Dependent Self
%A Kirsty Newsome
%A Sian Moore
%J Work, Employment and Society
%@ 1469-8722
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0950017018755664
%X This article explores supply chain pressures in parcel delivery and how the drive to contain costs to ¡®preserve value in motion¡¯, including the costs of failed delivery, underpins contractual differentiation. It focuses on owner-drivers and home couriers paid by delivery. It considers precarity through the lens of the labour process, while locating it within the supply chain, political economy and ¡®instituted economic process¡¯ that define it. Focus on the labour process shows how ¡®self-employment¡¯ is used to remove so-called ¡®unproductive¡¯ time from the remit of paid labour. Using Smith¡¯s concept of double indeterminacy the article captures the dynamic relationship between those on standard and non-standard contracts and interdependency of effort power and mobility power. It exposes the apparent mobility and autonomy of dependent self-employed drivers while suggesting that their presence, alongside the increased use of technology, reconfigures the work-effort bargain across contractual status
%K dualisation
%K logistics
%K precarity
%K self-employment
%K supply chains
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017018755664