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Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise

03/07/2025

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38 pages long

Languages: English

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In the UK and globally, in-home domestic childcare and adult care services are increasingly being provided via digital platforms, with significant implications for in-home/domestic care workers. This paper maps what we already know about this phenomenon and identifies knowledge gaps that could be filled through focused research in support of influencing initiatives aimed at improving […]

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Journal article

Food delivery workers in Mexico City: a gender perspective on the gig economy

07/12/2022

17 pages long

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Food delivery workers in Mexico City: a gender perspective on the gig economy

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This article analyses the working conditions of women on food delivery digital platforms given that women’s experiences and gender inequality in this sector has been under-explored. Drawing on original survey and interview data on platform-based food delivery workers, we deploy an intersectional lens to explore the ways in which women, especially mothers and other caregivers, […]

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Journal article

Platforms of inequality: gender dynamics of digital labour in Africa

07/12/2022

18 pages long

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Platforms of inequality: gender dynamics of digital labour in Africa

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Paid work and gender equality are key elements of international development discourse on women’s economic empowerment. New digital technologies are considered to generate paid work opportunities for the marginalised groups in Africa, particularly women. The rise of the platform economy (work digitally mediated via platforms), for example, is framed as a panacea to poverty and […]

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Journal article

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

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Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

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Journal article

Resources: Women, work, and the digital economy

07/11/2022

24 pages long

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Resources: Women, work, and the digital economy

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This is the Resources section of the journal issue on 'Women, work, and the digital economy'.

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Resources: Women, work, and the digital economy