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

• Superior document: Routledge international handbooks
• TeilnehmendeR: Ness, Immanuel.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge international handbooks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 530 p.) :; ill.

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 20th century to the present. It examines the rich and varied analysis and critique of the informalisation 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, as well as 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 non-standard 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. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

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 -- 32 The rise of the gig economy in South Africa: cooperation and conflict in the labor process -- 33 The gig economy in Kenya's informal transport sector: manifestations, benefits, challenges, and prospects -- 34 The gig economy and the formation of new platform trade unions in South America -- Index.