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The digital dis-intermediation and social re-intermediation of work and labour in India’s gig economy (2024)
Book Chapter
Ray, A. (2024). The digital dis-intermediation and social re-intermediation of work and labour in India’s gig economy. In M. Vale, D. Ferreira, & N. Rodrigues (Eds.), Geographies of the Platform Economy (189-201). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53594-9_13

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
Ray, A. (in press). Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India. Environment and Planning A, https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x231220296

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.