TAGGED: Migrant labor (11)
Liminal Precarity and Compromised Agency: Migrant experiences of gig work in Amsterdam, Berlin, and New York City
This chapter examines what moves migrants in the Global North to take up gig work and stick with it for various periods of time despite its by now well documented precarious conditions, by...
Platform capitalism’s social contract
Niels van Doorn discusses a number of ways in which platform companies are expanding their services and influence by identifying particular societal needs and marketing themselves as efficient...
Gig work as migrant work: The platformization of migration infrastructure
With markets concentrating predominantly in and around large cities, gig platforms across the globe seem to depend as much on the cheap labor of migrants and minorities as on investment capital and...
Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Ambiguities of Platform-Mediated Domestic Work Under Conditions of Austerity. Comparative Landscapes of Austerity and the Gig Economy: New York and Berlin
This book chapter is part of an edited collection titled _Working in the Context of Austerity: Challenges and Struggles_, edited by Donna Baines and Ian Cunningham. The chapter examines how, under...
Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention
In urban gig economies around the world, platform labour is predominantly migrant labour. Yet the academic literature on the intersection of the gig economy and labour migration remains scant. Our...
Disrupting 'Business as Usual': How COVID-19 is impacting platform-mediated labor and social reproduction
