Overview
- Identifies the interactions between informality as a signifying feature of emerging markets
- Shows how the emergence of platforms can change the relationship between citizens and the state
- Analyses the particular outcomes for democracy of disenfranchisement, disinformation and data injustice
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)
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Beyond a focus on livelihoods, employment, and work, the authors show how labour platforms take on powers that bring about broader impacts, including those affecting identity and personal wellbeing. They also illustrate the impact of platformization on the governance of affected sectors by public agencies, thus affecting political power, and how public data infrastructures contribute to further platformization. The purpose of this pioneering work is to lay bare these interactions to then rebuild our understanding of platformization and its social, political, cultural and economic impacts. Its insights are attentive to gender and ethnic differences, as well as geographical ones.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ursula Huws has held professorial positions at London Metropolitan University and the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and is now working independently. She has been researching the economic and social impacts of technological change, the restructuring of employment and the changing international division of labour since the 1970s.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Platformization and Informality
Book Subtitle: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
Editors: Aditi Surie, Ursula Huws
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11462-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11461-8Published: 12 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11464-9Published: 12 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11462-5Published: 11 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Work, Media Sociology, Sociology, general, Digital/New Media