Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation

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: $5,480
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,206
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 279
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031114647
  • ISBN-13: 9783031114649

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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在這本編輯的專著中，來自孟買、班加羅爾、雅加達、開普敦、聖保羅和其他南方全球城市的學者，透過不同的角度探索平台化和非正規性之間的複雜關係。他們借鑒了廣泛的理論、定量和定性研究，提供了對平台工作的生活實踐的有用概述和深入見解，涵蓋了各種技能、工作條件和算法管理形式。平台工作已經引起了北方學者的相當關注，他們傾向於將其視為之前受到規範的工作的一種非正式化形式。但在南方全球，特別是在大多數就業，尤其是女性和移民工人的就業，歷史上已經是非正式的情況下，情況如何呢？

除了關注生計、就業和工作之外，作者們還展示了勞動平台所具有的權力，帶來了更廣泛的影響，包括影響身份和個人福祉的影響。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。這項開創性工作的目的是揭示這些互動，然後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、種族差異以及地理差異。

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是印度人類住區研究所的研究員，位於印度班加羅爾市，她的研究領域包括全球南方的科技、資本主義和都市經濟。

Ursula Huws曾在英國倫敦都會大學和赫特福德郡大學擔任教授職位，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、就業重組和國際勞動分工的變化。

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