Uma Rani
Biographic Data
| ID | 372812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uma Rani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uma |
| FAMILY NAME | Rani |
| SIGNATURE | RANI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Labour Organization |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4874-8689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Power Relations in the Digital Economy
Linking Precarious Work to Unpaid Labor
The Politics of Unpaid Labour is a timely book that tackles the crucial issue of unpaid labor within precarious work, highlighting how it often invisibly sustains both the formal economy and existing power structures.Valeria Pulignano and Markieta Domecka broaden the scope of unpaid labor beyond household work to include market-related activities, recognizing the interconnectedness of these seemingly separate spheres.They argue that pressures to …
From Flexible Labour to 'Sticky Labour: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China
Despite considerable scholarly attention to the proliferation of gig work on digital platforms, research tracing the broad trends of labour relations is scant. Analysing interview and survey data on food-delivery workers in China between 2018 and 2019, this article demonstrates a trend of de-flexibilisation for workers, which contradicts the purported flexibility of platform-mediated work. It is argued that de-flexibilisation is achieved through …
Suivre l'évolution du discours sur le développement dans la Revue internationale du Travail
Dans l'introduction de ce numéro du centenaire, nous suivons le discours sur le développement tel qu'il ressort d'une série d'articles publiés dans la Revue internationale du Travail entre 1971 et 2020. Les treize articles choisis pour figurer dans ce numéro proposent, sur le développement, des perspectives diverses, à des moments différents. L'accent est mis sur les revenus, la transformation structurelle, l'amélioration de la vie des population…
Women, work, and the digital economy
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market
The Online Labour Index (OLI) was launched in 2016 to measure the global utilisation of online freelance work at scale. Five years after its creation, the OLI has become a point of reference for scholars and policy experts investigating the online gig economy. As the market for online freelancing work matures, a high volume of data and new analytical tools allow us to revisit half a decade of online freelance monitoring and extend the index's sco…
Social protection systems and the future of work: Ensuring social security for digital platform workers
Digitalization is transforming societies and economies worldwide at an unprecedented scale and pace. In the wake of automation and digitalization, new forms of employment have been emerging in various occupations and sectors, such as the digital platform economy. The emergence of new forms of employment, such as work on digital platforms, requires that existing social protection systems adapt to the specific situation and needs of such workers, a…
Urban Food Consumption in Metro Manila: Interdisciplinary Approaches Towards Apprehending Practices, Patterns, and Impacts
Food consumption is a local activity related to environmental impacts at different scales. Yet, the link between eating food as a social and cultural practice and the global implications of food consumption has not been sufficiently explored. We adopt a multidisciplinary approach to relate social practices with the biophysical flows of food products at the household level. Focusing on middle‐class households in Metro Manila, the Philippines, we c…
Minimum wages and inequality
Do Economic Reforms InfluenceHome-Based Work? Evidence from India
This paper analyzes the factors that influence the conditions under which a woman in India participates as a home-based worker using secondary level data at the micro level. At the macro level, the paper analyzes whether trade and industrial liberalization in India led to an increase in subcontracted work, of the home-based variety. The results show a historically high share of women in home-based work, which implies that female participation in …
Social Protection for Informal Workers in India: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms
In this article we present a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including income-generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed with which to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal workers, identify the core needs of social protection, develop instruments and visualize the institutional mechanisms to address these needs. Furt…
From Flexible Labour to 'Sticky Labour: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China
Despite considerable scholarly attention to the proliferation of gig work on digital platforms, research tracing the broad trends of labour relations is scant. Analysing interview and survey data on food-delivery workers in China between 2018 and 2019, this article demonstrates a trend of de-flexibilisation for workers, which contradicts the purported flexibility of platform-mediated work. It is argued that de-flexibilisation is achieved through …
Social protection systems and the future of work: Ensuring social security for digital platform workers
Digitalization is transforming societies and economies worldwide at an unprecedented scale and pace. In the wake of automation and digitalization, new forms of employment have been emerging in various occupations and sectors, such as the digital platform economy. The emergence of new forms of employment, such as work on digital platforms, requires that existing social protection systems adapt to the specific situation and needs of such workers, a…
Do Economic Reforms InfluenceHome-Based Work? Evidence from India
This paper analyzes the factors that influence the conditions under which a woman in India participates as a home-based worker using secondary level data at the micro level. At the macro level, the paper analyzes whether trade and industrial liberalization in India led to an increase in subcontracted work, of the home-based variety. The results show a historically high share of women in home-based work, which implies that female participation in …
Women, work, and the digital economy
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market
The Online Labour Index (OLI) was launched in 2016 to measure the global utilisation of online freelance work at scale. Five years after its creation, the OLI has become a point of reference for scholars and policy experts investigating the online gig economy. As the market for online freelancing work matures, a high volume of data and new analytical tools allow us to revisit half a decade of online freelance monitoring and extend the index's sco…
Social Protection for Informal Workers in India: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms
In this article we present a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including income-generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed with which to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal workers, identify the core needs of social protection, develop instruments and visualize the institutional mechanisms to address these needs. Furt…
Social Protection for Informal Workers in India: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms
In this article we present a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including income-generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed with which to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal workers, identify the core needs of social protection, develop instruments and visualize the institutional mechanisms to address these needs. Furt…
Do Economic Reforms InfluenceHome-Based Work? Evidence from India
This paper analyzes the factors that influence the conditions under which a woman in India participates as a home-based worker using secondary level data at the micro level. At the macro level, the paper analyzes whether trade and industrial liberalization in India led to an increase in subcontracted work, of the home-based variety. The results show a historically high share of women in home-based work, which implies that female participation in …
Minimum wages and inequality
Urban Food Consumption in Metro Manila: Interdisciplinary Approaches Towards Apprehending Practices, Patterns, and Impacts
Food consumption is a local activity related to environmental impacts at different scales. Yet, the link between eating food as a social and cultural practice and the global implications of food consumption has not been sufficiently explored. We adopt a multidisciplinary approach to relate social practices with the biophysical flows of food products at the household level. Focusing on middle‐class households in Metro Manila, the Philippines, we c…
Social protection systems and the future of work: Ensuring social security for digital platform workers
Digitalization is transforming societies and economies worldwide at an unprecedented scale and pace. In the wake of automation and digitalization, new forms of employment have been emerging in various occupations and sectors, such as the digital platform economy. The emergence of new forms of employment, such as work on digital platforms, requires that existing social protection systems adapt to the specific situation and needs of such workers, a…
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market
The Online Labour Index (OLI) was launched in 2016 to measure the global utilisation of online freelance work at scale. Five years after its creation, the OLI has become a point of reference for scholars and policy experts investigating the online gig economy. As the market for online freelancing work matures, a high volume of data and new analytical tools allow us to revisit half a decade of online freelance monitoring and extend the index's sco…
Suivre l'évolution du discours sur le développement dans la Revue internationale du Travail
Dans l'introduction de ce numéro du centenaire, nous suivons le discours sur le développement tel qu'il ressort d'une série d'articles publiés dans la Revue internationale du Travail entre 1971 et 2020. Les treize articles choisis pour figurer dans ce numéro proposent, sur le développement, des perspectives diverses, à des moments différents. L'accent est mis sur les revenus, la transformation structurelle, l'amélioration de la vie des population…
Women, work, and the digital economy
From Flexible Labour to 'Sticky Labour: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China
Despite considerable scholarly attention to the proliferation of gig work on digital platforms, research tracing the broad trends of labour relations is scant. Analysing interview and survey data on food-delivery workers in China between 2018 and 2019, this article demonstrates a trend of de-flexibilisation for workers, which contradicts the purported flexibility of platform-mediated work. It is argued that de-flexibilisation is achieved through …
Introduction: Power Relations in the Digital Economy
Linking Precarious Work to Unpaid Labor
The Politics of Unpaid Labour is a timely book that tackles the crucial issue of unpaid labor within precarious work, highlighting how it often invisibly sustains both the formal economy and existing power structures.Valeria Pulignano and Markieta Domecka broaden the scope of unpaid labor beyond household work to include market-related activities, recognizing the interconnectedness of these seemingly separate spheres.They argue that pressures to …
Economics (9 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Work (physics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)