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Platformization and Informality: edited book

Editors: Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian, 2023 In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru,...

Coalitions of Socio-Technical Infrastructure: Platforms as Essential Services

In Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 539–544, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab044 This...

On-demand platforms and pricing: how platforms can impact the informal urban economy

Journal article published in Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Vol 14, Issue 1 Pricing is the one of the most powerful...

Emerging Nature of Work in the Platform Economy: Evidence from Bengaluru, Karnataka

This paper investigates the work experiences, perceptions of security and risk of platform economy drivers in Bengaluru, India from a...

Climate change, Agrarian distress, and the role of digital labour markets: evidence from Bengaluru

In this article, we explore the use of the digital labour market set up by mobility platforms in Bengaluru, Karnataka, as a mechanism to...

Are Ola and Uber Drivers Entrepreneurs or Exploited Workers?

Early 2017 was a difficult period for Ola and Uber drivers: Their earnings plummeted[1] by 30-45% throwing their economic planning and...

Tech in Work: Organising Informal Work in India

The “platform economies” of today can provide traditional informal sector workers the opportunity to formalise and organise their work....