Description: Further DetailsTitle: Platformization and InformalityCondition: NewSubtitle: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and TransformationEAN: 9783031114618ISBN: 9783031114618Publisher: Palgrave MacmillanFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/12/2023Description: 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? Beyond a focus on livelihoods, employment, and work, the authors show how labour platforms take on powers that bring about broader impacts, including those affecting identity and personal wellbeing. They also illustrate the impact of platformization on the governance of affected sectors by public agencies, thus affecting political power, and how public data infrastructures contribute to further platformization. The purpose of this pioneering work is to lay bare these interactions to then rebuild our understanding of platformization and its social, political, cultural and economic impacts. Its insights are attentive to gender and ethnic differences, as well as geographical ones.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: CHItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 148mmContributor: Aditi Surie (Edited by), Ursula Huws (Edited by)Genre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesBook Series: Dynamics of Virtual WorkAuthor: Aditi SurieEdition: 2023 ed.Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Platformization and Informality
Title: Platformization and Informality
Subtitle: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
EAN: 9783031114618
ISBN: 9783031114618
Release Date: 05/12/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: CH
Item Height: 210mm
Contributor: Ursula Huws (Edited by)
Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work
Edition: 2023 ed.
Book Title: Platformization and Informality : Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
Number of Pages: Xvii, 279 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: Media Studies, Sociology / General, Economics / General, Labor
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Author: Ursula Huws
Item Length: 8.3 in
Book Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work Ser.
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
