Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
暫譯: 平台化與非正式性：變革、改變與轉型的途徑

Surie, Aditi, Huws, Ursula

Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-12
  • 售價: $5,660
  • 貴賓價: 9.8 折 $5,546
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 279
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031114647
  • ISBN-13: 9783031114649
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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.

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在這本編輯的著作中，來自孟買、班加羅爾、雅加達、開普敦、聖保羅及其他全球南方城市的學者們，透過不同的視角探討平台化與非正式工作的複雜關係。這些學者基於廣泛的理論、定量和定性研究，提供了有用的概述以及對於涵蓋各種技能、工作條件和算法管理形式的平臺工作實際情況的深入見解。平台工作吸引了來自全球北方的學者們的相當關注，他們往往將其視為對先前受規範工作的隨意化形式。但對於全球南方來說，尤其是女性和移民工人的大多數就業歷史上已經是非正式的，情況又如何呢？

除了專注於生計、就業和工作之外，作者們展示了勞動平台如何獲得影響力，帶來更廣泛的影響，包括影響身份和個人福祉的因素。他們還說明了平台化對受影響行業的公共機構治理的影響，從而影響政治權力，以及公共數據基礎設施如何促進進一步的平台化。這項開創性的工作旨在揭示這些互動，進而重建我們對平台化及其社會、政治、文化和經濟影響的理解。其見解關注性別和族裔差異，以及地理差異。

作者簡介

Aditi Surie is a Researcher at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India where she studies technology, capitalism and metropolitan economies of the global South.

Ursula Huws has held professorial positions at London Metropolitan University and the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and is now working independently. She has been researching the economic and social impacts of technological change, the restructuring of employment and the changing international division of labour since the 1970s.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Aditi Surie 是印度班加羅爾人類居住研究所的研究員，專注於全球南方的技術、資本主義和大都市經濟學。

Ursula Huws 曾在倫敦城市大學和英國哈特福德大學擔任教授，目前獨立工作。自1970年代以來，她一直在研究技術變革的經濟和社會影響、就業重組以及國際勞動分工的變化。

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