Digital Platform Employment in Kazakhstan
Can New Technologies Solve Old Problems in the Labor Market
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11211713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabina Insebayeva (0000-0001-7609-1840, Nazarbayev University, corresponding author), Serik Beyssembayev (L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Pages | 62-80 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0147547923000200 |
| OpenAlex | W4385952947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in the “sharing,” “gig,” or “on-demand” economy, which has been changing the relationships between customers, workers, and companies. While literature on the gig economy in the Western context abounds, few studies have focused on “digitalized” labor relations in the Central Asian context. Drawing on qualitative field research in Kazakhstan in 2016 and 2021, supplemented by quantitative data, this article contributes to debates about labor relations and the digitalized “gig” economy in a non-Western context. It provides a novel, in-depth, multisource account of the structure of platform-based business and work experiences in the digitally enabled Kazakh gig economy. Using ethnographic evidence, we offer a detailed analysis of labor conditions from the perspective of platform-based companies and gig workers, identifying resistance and “survival” strategies used to navigate and even challenge the existing system characterized by “algorithmic management” or “algorithm-based” labor relations
Business · Context (archaeology · Digital economy · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Geography · Gig economy · Kazakh · Labor relations · Labour economics · Management · Sociology · Work (physics · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Industrial relations · Mechanical Engineering · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Industrial Relations
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |