Beauty and the Platform Economy
In the platform economy, women in the beauty service industry are falling through the cracks exposed by the pandemic. Khawla…
THE NEW PRECARIAT
Over the past decade, debates around emerging technologies and the ‘Future of Work’ have gained in both momentum and attention. The New Precariat documents and illustrates the ongoing challenges that labor faces in the digital economy. It reports on the political economy of work in the new context – precarity and informality, dataveillance, gig economy, gendered dimensions of labor, technology-led displacement, exploring new imaginaries of labor rights and the right to work.
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What Strengthening Worker Protection in the Post-Pandemic World Would Entail
Platforms exert high levels of control over delivery workers. It’s time they took responsibility for workers’ wellbeing. Mawii Zothan and…
Pandemic Meets Precarity: The Case of Platform Delivery Work in Latin America
A feminist analysis of the working conditions of platform delivery workers. Flora Partenio, Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero and Belén Valencia Castro…
A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters
Wresting power back from platform capitalism Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami In the Global South, which is home to 93…
Securing Data and Labor Rights in the Post-Covid Digital Era
Public sector workers and unions have an important part to play in shaping the digital society. With Daniel Bertossa Control…
How Public Sector Workers and Unions can Shape the Digital Economy
Asserting collective ownership rights over data is one of the most fundamental policy issues of our time. Parminder Jeet Singh…
Uncertainties Galore in the Post-Pandemic Labor Market
How the Covid crisis may impact the future of labor markets across the global South With Sabina Dewan How will…
‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain
The hidden human labor behind the world’s most complex AI systems Kai-Hsin Hung Behind the complex AI systems of digital…
It’s a No-Win for Gig Workers in the Covid-19 Moment
Gig workers find themselves in a double bind as platforms respond to the crisis with piecemeal measures. With Srujana Katta…
Networked Desolation in Indonesia’s Platform Tourism Industry
Holding platform companies accountable is the need of the hour in the Covid-19 pandemic. Caitlin Bentley Over the last decade,…
