Khaoula Ettarfi
Biographic Data
| ID | 277844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Khaoula Ettarfi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Khaoula |
| FAMILY NAME | Ettarfi |
| SIGNATURE | ETTARFI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Labor Geography Unit, Geography Institute, University of Zürich, Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-2070-103X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hidden platform subsidies: The Role of Social Networks in Concealing (Too) Low Income on Care Work Platforms
As digital labour mediation platforms became prominent in the late 2010s, they were soon associated with deteriorating labour conditions, especially for ride hailing, delivery and crowd work. Yet studies are more ambivalent about their effects on care work, i.e. domestic work and home care for children and seniors. As care work was already informal and highly precarious before, digital platforms held the promise of (partially) formalizing it. Con…
Conceptualizing labor agency through resilience: Practices of reassembling work on domestic services platforms
Understanding labor agency in the context of platform-mediated work. • Framing resilience through work on domestic services platforms through reassembling work. • Work on domestic services platforms as an everyday support infrastructure for migrant women. • Work on platforms as refusal to accept conditions of exclusion and accept work other than the one imagined for oneself. In this article, I attempt to contribute to understanding labor agency i…
Professionalization from above in domestic work: Accessing work on marketplace platforms
Domestic work has always been a quintessential example of invisible labour. In this article, I explore how workers build individual visibility on marketplace platforms. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with workers who use different marketplace platforms in Geneva and surrounding areas to find domestic work, I show how visibility on marketplace platforms requires invisible work and a different set of skills, competencies, codes of conduct an…
Conceptualizing labor agency through resilience: Practices of reassembling work on domestic services platforms
Understanding labor agency in the context of platform-mediated work. • Framing resilience through work on domestic services platforms through reassembling work. • Work on domestic services platforms as an everyday support infrastructure for migrant women. • Work on platforms as refusal to accept conditions of exclusion and accept work other than the one imagined for oneself. In this article, I attempt to contribute to understanding labor agency i…
Professionalization from above in domestic work: Accessing work on marketplace platforms
Domestic work has always been a quintessential example of invisible labour. In this article, I explore how workers build individual visibility on marketplace platforms. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with workers who use different marketplace platforms in Geneva and surrounding areas to find domestic work, I show how visibility on marketplace platforms requires invisible work and a different set of skills, competencies, codes of conduct an…
Conceptualizing labor agency through resilience: Practices of reassembling work on domestic services platforms
Understanding labor agency in the context of platform-mediated work. • Framing resilience through work on domestic services platforms through reassembling work. • Work on domestic services platforms as an everyday support infrastructure for migrant women. • Work on platforms as refusal to accept conditions of exclusion and accept work other than the one imagined for oneself. In this article, I attempt to contribute to understanding labor agency i…
Professionalization from above in domestic work: Accessing work on marketplace platforms
Domestic work has always been a quintessential example of invisible labour. In this article, I explore how workers build individual visibility on marketplace platforms. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with workers who use different marketplace platforms in Geneva and surrounding areas to find domestic work, I show how visibility on marketplace platforms requires invisible work and a different set of skills, competencies, codes of conduct an…
Hidden platform subsidies: The Role of Social Networks in Concealing (Too) Low Income on Care Work Platforms
As digital labour mediation platforms became prominent in the late 2010s, they were soon associated with deteriorating labour conditions, especially for ride hailing, delivery and crowd work. Yet studies are more ambivalent about their effects on care work, i.e. domestic work and home care for children and seniors. As care work was already informal and highly precarious before, digital platforms held the promise of (partially) formalizing it. Con…
Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Boundary-work (1 works) · Domestic work (1 works)