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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.

Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy (2023)
Journal Article
Ray, A. (2024). Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy. Third World Quarterly, 45(4), 790-809. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2223133

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
Ray, A. (2020). IT-oriented infrastructural development, urban co-dependencies, and the reconfiguration of everyday politics in Pune, India. Urban Planning, 5(4), 371-383. https://doi.org/10.17645/UP.V5I4.3506

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.