The Routledge handbook of the gig economy / edited by Immanuel Ness.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ness, Immanuel, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gig economy.

Precarious employment.

Temporary employment.

Flexible work arrangements.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

"Research on the growth of the precarious economy is of significant interest, as the economy increasingly becomes dependent on gig work. However, as platform and automated service work has grown, there remains a chasm in understanding the key aspects of digital labour. 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. It highlights the political, social, cultural and developmental impact of the deterioration of employment in the global North and global South, and the extreme threat posed to the planet by the growth of contingent work, poverty and enduring and increasing inequalities produced and reproduced by the reformation of capitalism in the contemporary age of neoliberal capitalism. The period from the 1980s to the present is marked by the expanded extraction of surplus value from workers through the creation of nonstandard jobs and the restructuring of work. A central component of the restructuring of work is the extension of gig employment through the development of algorithmic platforms which direct labourers to perform discrete tasks. This is a definitive collection, representing the primary reference work, contributing to our understanding of the subject. The book is written and presented in a clear manner, accessible to scholars and researchers of international political economy, labour economics and sociology who are eager for new research examining this phenomenon, as well as, specialists in the field of labour relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

List of contributors

List of figures

List of tables

1 Introduction

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 pauperisation 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 Globalisation, women, and migration in the gig economy

7 (Re)inventing the collective dimension in a 'virtualised' labour market

8 Beyond formality: the informalisation and tertiarisation of labour in the gig economy

9 Feminised 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, and mobility: migration and the gig economy

PART III Worker protest and labour organising

13 Worker solidarity among gig and precarious workers

14 Vulnerable food delivery platforms under pressure: protesting couriers seeking 'algorithmic justice' and alternatives

15 New labour formations, precarious workers, and the gig economy: lessons from British indie unions

16 Labour movements, gig economy, and platform capitalism

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 Prop 22 and lessons for gig workers organising 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 Ambivalences of platform work: the gig economy in Germany

23 Russia: quality of employment as a competition factor between gig and traditional economies

24 Australia: labour and the gig economy

PART V Regional dynamics, Global South: Asia, Africa, and South America

25 The unfulfilled promise of gig work: unpacking informality and gig work in India

26 Platform economy, techno-nationalism, and gig workers in India

27 The gig economy in China

28 Fictitious autonomy and negotiated consent: gig work in Japan

29 Platform economy and gig work in South Korea: a special focus on Naver and Kakao

30 Class formation and relations among Filipino cloudworkers

31 Divided unionisation: between traditional and digital labour in Indonesia

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of the gig economy

ISBN:

9781003161875

1003161871

9781000726626

1000726622

9781000726589

1000726584

OCLC:

1334726286

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