The Platform Cooperativism Movement: Worker-Owned Alternatives to Uber and Airbnb

Platform cooperativism offers worker-owned alternatives to extractive platform capitalism. Driver Cooperative (owned by drivers), Fairbnb (community-owned accommodation), Stocksy (photographer-owned stock imagery). These platforms distribute profits to workers rather than extracting them. Challenge: scaling requires capital that cooperatives struggle to raise. Blockchain and DAOs may provide new governance models. The movement represents a genuine alternative to the gig economy's exploitation problem.