Gigs North and South

Bibliographic Data

ID2414971
AuthorsDanyella Greene (0000-0002-1294-2973, University of Maryland, College Park), Zothan Mawii (0000-0001-8458-1188, University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume11
Issue2
Publication date2025-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Media + Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2056-3051 • E-ISSN: 2056-3051
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/20563051251340860
OpenAlexW4411093103
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

This commentary investigates platformization in global south and global north labor markets, arguing they are linked via a process of uneven and combined development. Focusing on platformization in India and the United States, we briefly describe long-standing patterns of formal and informal labor in the United States and India, which prepare the ground for the 21st-century explosion of gig platforms. We conclude by returning to the global scale of uneven and combined development, drawing on contemporary Indian Marxists to explain the global spread of gig platforms post-2008 as a global financial response to the political problem of surplus workers within premature deindustrialization

Geography · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Sharing Economy and Platforms

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