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Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation

Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation

Huws, Ursula
Surie, Aditi

Hardcover

Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work

LaborGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031114612
ISBN13: 9783031114618
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 12 2023
Pages: 279
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore the complex relationship between platformization and informality through a different lens. Drawing on extensive theoretical, quantitative and qualitative scholarship, they provide both a useful overview and insights into the lived realities of gig work for platforms covering a range of skills, working conditions, and forms of algorithmic management. Platform work has attracted considerable attention from scholars in the global North, who have tended to view it as a form of casualisation of work that was previously regulated. But what about the global South, where most employment, especially that of women and migrant workers was historically already informal?

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