A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms

Autores
Islam, Asiya; Galeano Alfonso, Silvana; Pla, Jésica Lorena
Año de publicación
2025
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Building on recent interventions in platform work scholarship that centre social reproduction and draw attention to informal economies in the Global South, this paper advances a ‘working lives’ framework to account for the entanglements of production/reproduction, informality and precarity, and gender norms in the shaping of platform work. Based on interviews with women engaged in delivery work through digital platforms in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Delhi, India, the paper shows that women enter platform delivery work compelled by adverse socio-economic conditions and work-life histories of informality. Women organise their participation in platform delivery work, making use of its location flexibility, for and around the needs of the household. Further, they operationalise this flexibility to navigate gendered constraints, such as, curtailed radius of work to ensure safety and continued responsibility for housework and childcare. The paper, empirically novel in accounting for narratives of women in the Global South, offers the analytical framework of ‘working lives’, combining long-term and place-based perspectives with everyday perspectives, with attention to social norms, for research on platform work globally.
Fil: Islam, Asiya. The London School of Economics and Political Science; Reino Unido
Fil: Galeano Alfonso, Silvana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Pla, Jésica Lorena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Centro de Altos Estudios En Ciencias Sociales - Sede Buenos Aires ; Universidad Abierta Interamericana;
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PLATFORM WORK
GENDER
SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
INFORMALITY
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms
title A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms
spellingShingle A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms
Islam, Asiya
PLATFORM WORK
GENDER
SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
INFORMALITY
title_short A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms
title_full A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms
title_fullStr A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms
title_full_unstemmed A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms
title_sort A ‘working lives’ approach to platform work: Accounting for informality, social reproduction, and gender norms
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Islam, Asiya
Galeano Alfonso, Silvana
Pla, Jésica Lorena
author Islam, Asiya
author_facet Islam, Asiya
Galeano Alfonso, Silvana
Pla, Jésica Lorena
author_role author
author2 Galeano Alfonso, Silvana
Pla, Jésica Lorena
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv PLATFORM WORK
GENDER
SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
INFORMALITY
topic PLATFORM WORK
GENDER
SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
INFORMALITY
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Building on recent interventions in platform work scholarship that centre social reproduction and draw attention to informal economies in the Global South, this paper advances a ‘working lives’ framework to account for the entanglements of production/reproduction, informality and precarity, and gender norms in the shaping of platform work. Based on interviews with women engaged in delivery work through digital platforms in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Delhi, India, the paper shows that women enter platform delivery work compelled by adverse socio-economic conditions and work-life histories of informality. Women organise their participation in platform delivery work, making use of its location flexibility, for and around the needs of the household. Further, they operationalise this flexibility to navigate gendered constraints, such as, curtailed radius of work to ensure safety and continued responsibility for housework and childcare. The paper, empirically novel in accounting for narratives of women in the Global South, offers the analytical framework of ‘working lives’, combining long-term and place-based perspectives with everyday perspectives, with attention to social norms, for research on platform work globally.
Fil: Islam, Asiya. The London School of Economics and Political Science; Reino Unido
Fil: Galeano Alfonso, Silvana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Pla, Jésica Lorena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Centro de Altos Estudios En Ciencias Sociales - Sede Buenos Aires ; Universidad Abierta Interamericana;
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