Platformization and informality : pathways of change, alteration, and transformation

Platformization and informality : pathways of change, alteration, and transformation / Aditi Surie, Ursula Huws, editors.

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, th...

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Other Authors: Surie, Aditi, Huws, Ursula
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]
Series:Dynamics of virtual work.
Subjects:
Gig economy > Developing countries.
Informal sector (Economics) > Developing countries.
Gig economy
Informal sector (Economics)
Developing countries
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
  • 2.Platformizing Informality, One Gig at a Time.-3.Work on Online Labour Platforms: Does Formal Education Matter
  • 4.(In)Formality and the Janus Face of the Platform: Production of the Space of Taxi Driving between Everyday Realities and Rationalities of State and Market
  • 5.Uberization: The Periphery as the Future of Work?
  • 6.Gojek as Labour Infrastructure: Platformization of Work in Indonesia
  • 7.Feminist Approaches to Location-Based Labour Platforms in India
  • 8 Metaphors of Work, from Below
  • 9. (Re)Conceptualizing Gendered Structures of Informality for Domestic Workers in the Platform Economy .

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