Topic
Digital Labour
25 items.
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 …
13 Aug 2024
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Gig and platform workers’ perspectives on worker collectivesThis report highlights findings from a survey conducted by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers’ Union on platform workers’ perspectives around various worker collectives, particularly platform worker unions and cooperative societies. The …
8 Jul 2024
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Karnataka’s uniform fare policy—Do attempts at parity consider the impact on workers?Chiara Furtado and Nishkala Sekhar write in The News Minute about the Karnataka transport department’s February 2024 fare policy aiming for parity between aggregator (app-based) and other taxis. While policy interventions towards parity is …
16 May 2024
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‘Future of work’ or 21st–century oppressed labour?: Findings from an AIGWU survey with 50 Urban Company housekeeping workers in Bengalurun this essay, Nihira Ram shares findings from a survey done by the All India Gig Workers Union with more than 50 migrant workers living in a slum in Bengaluru. The workers primarily provided cleaning and domestic services on the platform, …
24 Apr 2024
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That Is Not A Livelihood – That Is Helplessness”: Field notes from the Fraazo Delivery Workers Strike in Noida, Greater Noida, and GhaziabadIn this essay, Rikta Krishnaswamy of the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) narrates her experiences of organising and supporting delivery workers’ collective action against Fraazo (a now-defunct platform for produce and grocery …
18 Apr 2024
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The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban IndiaAmbika Tandon and Aayush Rathi contributed an essay on how gated society management apps like MyGate and NoBrokerHood feed on caste and income inequalities in new datafied forms. The essay features in The Formalization of Social …
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 …
30 Jan 2024
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Your economy, our livelihoods: A policy brief by the All India Gig Workers’ UnionIn this policy brief, the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) presents its critique on NITI Aayog’s report on India’s platform economy. Through experiences from over 3 years of organising gig workers across India, they highlight fallacies …
25 Jun 2021
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IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and SafetyBetween July to November 2019, Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, conducted 2,128 surveys across 6 major cities: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, …
31 Dec 2020
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Labour futures: Intersectional responses to southern digital platform economiesIt is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a two-year research project to comprehensively analyse dominant and emerging sectors in India’s platform economies. The project is funded by a research grant of USD 200,000 from …
22 Dec 2020
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Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisationsThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in response to the public consultation of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the …
17 Sep 2020
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IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19This report, by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, explores the responses to the outbreak of Covid-19 by digital platform based companies, trade …
19 May 2020
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A Compilation of Research on the Gig EconomyOver the past year, researchers at CIS have been studying gig economies and gig workers in India. Their work has involved consultative discussions with domestic workers, food delivery workers, taxi drivers, trade union leaders, and …
30 Apr 2020
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From Health and Harassment to Income Security and Loans, India's Gig Workers Need SupportDeemed an 'essential service' by most state governments, and thereby exempt from temporary suspension during the COVID-19 lockdown, food, groceries and other essential commodities have continued to be delivered by e-commerce companies and …
30 Apr 2020
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COVID-19 Charter Of Recommendations on Gig WorkTandem Research and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a webinar on 9 April 2020, with unions representing gig workers and researchers studying labour rights and gig work, to uncover the experiences of gig workers during the …
14 Apr 2020
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Zothan Mawii - COVID-19 and Relief Measures for Gig Workers in IndiaCIS is cohosted a webinar with Tandem Research on the impact of the COVID-19 response on the gig economy on 9 April 2020. It was a closed door discussion between representatives of workers' unions, labour activists, and researchers working …
17 Feb 2020
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Platformisation of Domestic Work in India: Report from a Multistakeholder ConsultationOn November 16, 2019, The Centre for Internet and Society invited officials from the Department of Labour (Government of Karnataka), members of domestic worker unions, domestic workers, company representatives, and civil society researchers …
5 Feb 2020
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Roundtable on India’s Gig-work EconomyWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
15 Jan 2020
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Noopur Raval and Rajendra Jadhav - Power Chronography of Food-Delivery WorkWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
1 Jan 2020
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Anushree Gupta - Ladies ‘Log’: Women’s Safety and Risk Transfer in RidehailingWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
18 Dec 2019
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Sarah Zia - Not knowing as pedagogy: Ride-hailing drivers in DelhiWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
4 Dec 2019
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Simiran Lalvani - Workers’ Fictive Kinship Relations in Mumbai App-based Food DeliveryWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
10 Oct 2019
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Doing Standpoint TheoryFeminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism. Standpoint …
1 Oct 2019
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Digital mediation of domestic and care work in India: Project AnnouncementIt is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a study on digital mediation of domestic and care work in India, as part of and supported by the Feminist Internet Research Network led by the Association for Progressive …
6 Aug 2015
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Mock-Calling – Ironies of Outsourcing and the Aspirations of an IndividualThis post by Sreedeep is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. He is an independent photographer and a Fellow at the Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. In this essay, Sreedeep explores …