Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy
The Intersection of Migrant Labor, Platform Capitalism, and Resistance
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 28 November 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031912610
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages261 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XVIII, 261 p. 2 illus. Illustrations, black & white 700
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Long description:
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This book explores the gig economy and the role of migrant workers, which has been widely documented, but under-researched. In the last forty years work and employment in the advanced economies has undergone profound transformations and, more recently, a key role has been played by the development of platform capitalism and the gig economy as a way of organising work and providing services.
There are still huge gaps in research on how platform-mediated gig work impacts the structural vulnerability of migrant workers and how this can be addressed by welfare policies. The aim of this book is to address some of these issues. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from across the globe on topics such as migrant workers and digitalised work, artificial Intelligence and work, digitalisation and work-related policy, digital surveillance, labour struggles in the digitalised service sector, unionism and self-organisation in the gig economy. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of work and employment, the future of work, social movements, migration and labour studies.
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Chapter 1: Introduction. Migrant labour in the platform economy. The intersection of labour digitization, platform capitalism, migration, and resistance Francesco Della Puppa, Dipsita Dhar, Nicola Montagna.- Part 1: Vulnerability and inherent precarity of migrant workers in Gig Economy.- Chapter 2: Migrant Labour in the Greek Gig Economy Lefteris Kretsos and Vassilis Charitsis.- Chapter 3: Migrant Work and Informal Circuits of Labour in the Gig-economy: the case of digital caporalato Gianmarco Peterlongo.- Chapter 4: “Binding-flexibility” in the platform economy. Some reflections from the platform-mediated food delivery service in Venice Giorgio Pirina.- Chapter 5: Wake Up – Deliver – Repeat: and the Delivery-Partners Suddhabrata Deb Roy.- Chapter 6: Vulnerability and resistance among digital and platform (im)migrant workers in Portugal Isabel Roque.- Part 2: Strategies of resistance.- Chapter 7: Organising Migrant and BAME Platform Workers in London: The Intersection Between Agency, Collective Resistance, and Self-exploitation in the Case of Food Delivery Riders Paolo Borghi, Annalisa Murgia.- Chapter 8: Migration, precarity and solidarity among migrant gig workers in China’s food delivery and ride-hailing sectors Yang Zhou.- Chapter 9: Can inter union collaborations help in cushioning the migrant labour in a platform capital regime and an increasingly gated society? Dipsita Dhar, Soham Bhattacharya, Ashique Ali T.
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