All Outputs (6)

A new politics of welfare? The origins and strategies of India’s gig and platform workers’ unions in the era of digital capitalism (2025)
Journal Article

During and after the months of pandemic control measures, newly formed unions of platform and gig workers in India started leveraging electoral contests, campaigns and politics to advocate for and with laws that would regulate platform work and provi... Read More about A new politics of welfare? The origins and strategies of India’s gig and platform workers’ unions in the era of digital capitalism.

Interrogating technological leapfrogging in Asian development and growth models: Toward a critical postcolonial political economy approach (2025)
Journal Article

This article examines the discourse of technological leapfrogging within dominant Asian development models—namely, the earlier manufacturing-led development (MLD) and the more recent services-led development (SLD)—which posit that developing nations... Read More about Interrogating technological leapfrogging in Asian development and growth models: Toward a critical postcolonial political economy approach.

The digital dis-intermediation and social re-intermediation of work and labour in India’s gig economy (2024)
Book Chapter

There is little doubt that we are gradually beginning to have a greater understanding of the platform-based gig economy model and its growing influence on work and labour around the world, and in the global South in particular. Existing accounts from... Read More about The digital dis-intermediation and social re-intermediation of work and labour in India’s gig economy.

Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India (2024)
Journal Article

The most recent phase of services digitalisation in the global South, reflected in the widespread adoption of Internet and smart-phone technologies, has given rise to an emergent gig economy that employs tens of millions of workers across its diverse... Read More about Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India.

Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy (2023)
Journal Article

Once a popular buzzword for multinational corporations, ‘professionalism’ has now become a common catchphrase in India’s emerging services economy. Today, youth aspiring to join entry-level services roles such as those in call centres, retail, and co... Read More about Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy.

IT-oriented infrastructural development, urban co-dependencies, and the reconfiguration of everyday politics in Pune, India (2020)
Journal Article

Existing scholarship on postcolonial urbanisms has judiciously analysed the role played by the state and private capital in the expansion of global information-technology clusters and exclusive high-tech knowledge enclaves that have emerged across di... Read More about IT-oriented infrastructural development, urban co-dependencies, and the reconfiguration of everyday politics in Pune, India.