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Abhishek Sekharan
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15 Oct 2024
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Platforming precarity: Data narratives of workers sustaining urban platform servicesCIS conducted quantitative surveys with over 800 workers employed in the app-based taxi and delivery sectors across 4 cities in India as part of the ‘Labour Futures’ project supported by the Internet Society Foundation. The surveys covered …
15 Feb 2024
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Workers’ experiences in app-based taxi and delivery sectors: Key initial findings from multi-city quantitative surveysIn 2021-22, the labour research vertical at CIS conducted quantitative surveys with over 1,000 taxi and delivery workers employed in the app-based and offline sectors. The surveys covered key employment indicators, including earnings and …
4 Jul 2023
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Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economyAmbika Tandon and Abhishek Sekharan published an academic paper highlighting the importance of women’s networks of information sharing and care in navigating opaque platform design. The paper is part of an issue of Gender and Development on …
3 Jul 2023
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Gender and collective bargaining in the platform economy: Experiences of on-demand beauty workers in IndiaAbhishek Sekharan, Chiara Furtado, and Ambika Tandon contributed an essay on gender and collective bargaining in the platform economy in India, reflecting on the experiences of women beauty workers who organised India’s first women-led …
1 Apr 2022
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Comments to the draft Motor Vehicle Aggregators Scheme, 2021This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Motor Vehicle Aggregators Scheme, 2021 published by the Transport Department, Government of National Capital Territory of …
6 Dec 2021
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Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers?Recent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy.