Platformization and Informality

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.

• 1.Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation.- 2.Platformizing Informality, One Gig at a Time.-3.Work on Online Labour Platforms: Does Formal Education Matter.- 4.(In)Formality and the Janus Face of the Platform: Production of the ‘Space of Taxi Driving’ between Everyday Realities and Rationalities of State and Market.- 5.Uberization: The Periphery as the Future of Work? .-  6.Gojek as Labour Infrastructure: Platformization of Work in Indonesia.- 7.Feminist Approaches to Location-Based Labour Platforms in India.- 8 Metaphors of Work, from ‘Below’.- 9. (Re)Conceptualizing Gendered Structures of Informality for Domestic Workers in the Platform Economy