Aditya Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aditya Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aditya |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1394-9077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: Platform Labour in the Global South and Global North
This special issue of the Journal of Sociology explores the variegated nature of digital labour platforms and their operations across the Global South and Global North. In recent years, digital labour platforms have emerged as a significant technological wave, reshaping and reconfiguring the landscapes of labour and the broader economy. However, their emergence and expansion have not followed uniform trajectories across different parts of the wor…
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach
This article examines the discourse of technological leapfrogging within dominant Asian development models-namely, the earlier manufacturing-led development (MLD) and the more recent services-led development (SLD)-which posit that developing nations such as India, China, and the Philippines are 'catching up' with the West through digitalization, trade, and privatization of modern services. While these models highlight the shift from industrial pr…
Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy
Once a popular buzzword for multinational corporations, ‘professionalism’ has now become a common catchphrase in India’s emerging services economy. Today, youth aspiring to join entry-level services roles such as those in call centres, retail, and coffee shops undergo intense and regimented trainings to become ‘professional’, learning to regulate their bodies, behaviours, language, and overall identities, to fit into diverse and fast-paced ‘servi…
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: Digitally organised informality', migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India
The most recent phase of services digitalisation in the global South, reflected in the widespread adoption of Internet and smart-phone technologies, has given rise to an emergent gig economy that employs tens of millions of workers across its diverse urban centres. Pre-eminent frames of analysing the global gig economy have thus far focussed significantly on issues related to platform regulation, employment relations and labour organisation. Whil…
IT-Oriented Infrastructural Development, Urban Co-Dependencies, and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Politics in Pune, India
Existing scholarship on postcolonial urbanisms has judiciously analysed the role played by the state and private capital in the expansion of global information-technology clusters and exclusive high-tech knowledge enclaves that have emerged across different metropolitan fringes in India and in the wider global South. However, much of this scholarship has focused primarily on the antagonisms wrought by the ‘expulsion’ of local rural populations fr…
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: Digitally organised informality', migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India
The most recent phase of services digitalisation in the global South, reflected in the widespread adoption of Internet and smart-phone technologies, has given rise to an emergent gig economy that employs tens of millions of workers across its diverse urban centres. Pre-eminent frames of analysing the global gig economy have thus far focussed significantly on issues related to platform regulation, employment relations and labour organisation. Whil…
Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy
Once a popular buzzword for multinational corporations, ‘professionalism’ has now become a common catchphrase in India’s emerging services economy. Today, youth aspiring to join entry-level services roles such as those in call centres, retail, and coffee shops undergo intense and regimented trainings to become ‘professional’, learning to regulate their bodies, behaviours, language, and overall identities, to fit into diverse and fast-paced ‘servi…
IT-Oriented Infrastructural Development, Urban Co-Dependencies, and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Politics in Pune, India
Existing scholarship on postcolonial urbanisms has judiciously analysed the role played by the state and private capital in the expansion of global information-technology clusters and exclusive high-tech knowledge enclaves that have emerged across different metropolitan fringes in India and in the wider global South. However, much of this scholarship has focused primarily on the antagonisms wrought by the ‘expulsion’ of local rural populations fr…
Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy
Once a popular buzzword for multinational corporations, ‘professionalism’ has now become a common catchphrase in India’s emerging services economy. Today, youth aspiring to join entry-level services roles such as those in call centres, retail, and coffee shops undergo intense and regimented trainings to become ‘professional’, learning to regulate their bodies, behaviours, language, and overall identities, to fit into diverse and fast-paced ‘servi…
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: Digitally organised informality', migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India
The most recent phase of services digitalisation in the global South, reflected in the widespread adoption of Internet and smart-phone technologies, has given rise to an emergent gig economy that employs tens of millions of workers across its diverse urban centres. Pre-eminent frames of analysing the global gig economy have thus far focussed significantly on issues related to platform regulation, employment relations and labour organisation. Whil…
Interrogating Technological Leapfrogging in Asian Development and Growth Models: Toward a Critical Postcolonial Political Economy Approach
This article examines the discourse of technological leapfrogging within dominant Asian development models-namely, the earlier manufacturing-led development (MLD) and the more recent services-led development (SLD)-which posit that developing nations such as India, China, and the Philippines are 'catching up' with the West through digitalization, trade, and privatization of modern services. While these models highlight the shift from industrial pr…
Introduction: Platform Labour in the Global South and Global North
This special issue of the Journal of Sociology explores the variegated nature of digital labour platforms and their operations across the Global South and Global North. In recent years, digital labour platforms have emerged as a significant technological wave, reshaping and reconfiguring the landscapes of labour and the broader economy. However, their emergence and expansion have not followed uniform trajectories across different parts of the wor…
Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works)