The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy

Herausgeber: Ness, Immanuel

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook presents comprehensive theoretical, empirical and historical accounts of the political economy of informal work from the late twentieth century to the present. It examines the rich and varied analysis and critique of the informalization of work, focusing on its most significant theories, intellectual traditions, and authors.

Produktdetails

• Routledge International Handbooks
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 177mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9780367752910
• ISBN-10: 0367752913
• Artikelnr.: 70357808

Autorenporträt

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, NY, USA and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction, Gig economy and globalization of capitalism PART I.
Conceptual perspectives and approaches 2. Job instability, precarity,
informality and inequality labour in the gig economy 3. Inclusion
through the platform economy? The 'diverse' crowd as relative surplus
populations and the pauperization of labour 4. Entrepreneurial
finance capital and the gig economy 5. The algorithmic surveillance
of gig workers: Mechanisms and consequences 6. The challenges of
total talent management in the gig economy PART II. Globalization,
women, and migration in gig economy 7. (Re)inventing the collective
dimension in a 'virtualised' labour market 8. Beyond formality:
informalization and tertiarisation of labour in the gig economy 9.
Feminized Work After Fordism: The New Precarity 10. Trade unions,
women's labour and the gig economy 11. Liminal precarity and
compromised agency: Migrant experiences of gig work in Amsterdam,
Berlin and New York City 12. Platforms, labour, mobility: Migration
and the gig economy PART III. Worker Protest and Labour Organizing
13. Worker solidarity among gig and precarious workers 14. Vulnerable
food delivery platforms under pressure: protesting couriers seeking
"algorithmic justice" 15. New Labour Formations, Precarious Workers
and the Gig Economy: Lessons from British Indie Unions 16. Labour
Movements and the Gig Economy: Collective Identity and Strategy 17.
Consumers in the gig economy: Resisting or reinforcing precarious
work? PART IV. Regional Dynamics, Global North EUROPE AND NORTH
AMERICA 18. Transformations of work in the era of the gig economy:
towards a new paradigm of worker autonomy or exploitation? 19.
Control >Delete: Prop 22 and Lessons for Gig Worker Organizing
Against Algorithmic Management 20. Protecting gig economy workers in
EU law: Challenges and recent initiatives 21. Falling through the
cracks: Gig economy and platform work in Central and Eastern Europe
22. Germany and the Gig Economy: Ambivalences of platform work 23.
Russian Federation, Labour and the gig economy 24. Australia, Labour
and the gig economy PART V. Regional Dynamics, Global South ASIA,
AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA 25. India and South Asia, Labour and the gig
economy 26. India, Techno-nationalism: The platform economy 27.
China, Labour and the gig economy 28. Japan, Labour and the gig
economy 29. Korea, Labour and the gig economy 30. Philippines,
Digital economy, class formation and exploitation 31. Indonesia,
Labour and the gig economy 32. South Africa, the rise of the gig
economy and worker responses 33. Kenya, Transportation workers in the
gig economy 34. Brazil, Gig economy and formation of new platform
trade unions in South America