# Gig Worker Organizing

> Gig Worker Organizing is mapped as the withheld hand: it reveals that production and services depend on organized human cooperation.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:labor-class:gig-worker-organizing` |
| Family | Labor & Class Power |
| Domain | Political Economy |
| Kind | movement |
| Archetypal function | The Withheld Hand |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Gig Worker Organizing belongs to the **Labor & Class Power** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Gig Worker Organizing reveals that production and services depend on organized human cooperation, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Gig Worker Organizing, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Withheld Hand.** Gig Worker Organizing is mapped as the withheld hand: it reveals that production and services depend on organized human cooperation.

## Gift

creates bargaining power, solidarity, and material redistribution; through Gig Worker Organizing, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

protects insiders, hardens bureaucracy, or discounts unpaid and informal labor; Gig Worker Organizing can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Gig Worker Organizing to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Withheld Hand enters through Gig Worker Organizing. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Gig Worker Organizing becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**event.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Gig Worker Organizing; another player names a countermove. Initiative 4.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Precarity:** Precarity legitimizes Gig Worker Organizing by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Tenant Union:** Gig Worker Organizing mobilizes Tenant Union by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Echo Chamber:** Gig Worker Organizing counteracts Echo Chamber by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **legitimizes — Regulatory Capture:** Regulatory Capture legitimizes Gig Worker Organizing by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Gig Worker Organizing from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Gig Worker Organizing is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Gig Worker Organizing: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [National Labor Relations Act](https://www.nlrb.gov/guidance/key-reference-materials/national-labor-relations-act) — National Labor Relations Board, 1935. U.S. collective-bargaining and protected concerted-activity framework.
- [Freedom of Association](https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/freedom-association-and-right-collective-bargaining) — International Labour Organization, ongoing. International labor principles and collective bargaining.
- [198 Methods of Nonviolent Action](https://www.aeinstein.org/nonviolentaction/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/) — Albert Einstein Institution, 1973. Tactic taxonomy; inclusion does not imply effectiveness or ethical endorsement in every context.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
