Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy

The Intersection of Migrant Labour, Platform Capitalism, and Resistance
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-91261-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Dynamics of Virtual Work

This book explores the gig economy and the role of migrant workers, which has been widely documented, but under-researched. In the last forty years work and employment in the advanced economies has undergone profound transformations and, more recently, a key role has been played by the development of platform capitalism and the gig economy as a way of organising work and providing services.

There are still huge gaps in research on how platform-mediated gig work impacts the structural vulnerability of migrant workers and how this can be addressed by welfare policies. The aim of this book is to address some of these issues. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from across the globe on topics such as migrant workers and digitalised work, artificial Intelligence and work, digitalisation and work-related policy, digital surveillance, labour struggles in the digitalised service sector, unionism and self-organisation in the gig economy. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of work and employment, the future of work, social movements, migration and labour studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Della Puppa, Francesco

Dhar, Dipsita

Montagna, Nicola

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction. Migrant labour in the platform economy. The intersection of labour digitization, platform capitalism, migration, and resistance Part 1: Vulnerability and inherent precarity of migrant workers in Gig Economy.- Chapter 2: Migrant Labour in the Greek Gig Economy Chapter 3: Migrant Work and Informal Circuits of Labour in the Gig-economy: the case of digital caporalato Chapter 4: “Binding-flexibility” in the platform economy. Some reflections from the platform-mediated food delivery service in Venice .- Chapter 5:  Wake Up – Deliver – Repeat: and the Delivery-Partners .- Chapter 6: Vulnerability and resistance among digital and platform (im)migrant workers in Portugal .- Part 2: Strategies of resistance.- Chapter 7: Organising Migrant and BAME Platform Workers in London: The Intersection Between Agency, Collective Resistance, and Self-exploitation in the Case of Food Delivery Riders .- Chapter 8: Migration, precarity and solidarity among migrant gig workers in China’s food delivery and ride-hailing sectors .- Chapter 9: Can inter union collaborations help in cushioning the migrant labour in a platform capital regime and an increasingly gated society? .

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Della Puppa is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University, Italy. He carries out teaching and research activities relating to international migration, migrant families and family reunification, transformations of masculinity in migration, migrant labour and racial discrimination, refugees and asylum seekers, digital labour. He has published widely in books and journals.

Dipsita Dhar is an activist and early career research scholar, who works on Migration, Unionisation and Digital Labour. She recently has co-edited a book titled (2022) discussing the adverse effect of the New Education Policy on the young students of India. Her work on digital labour platform has been published in journals like and others. Apart from the academic journals she often writes for Jacobin and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on various issues.

Nicola Montagna (PhD) is Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociology at the University of Salerno. Prior to this, he taught and conducted research at Middlesex University London for nearly twenty years. He has participated in several international research projects funded by the European Union (EU) , the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) , and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) . His research focuses on international migration and the politics of migration and borders, social movements, urban protest, populism . He has published widely in leading academic journals, including and the , as well as in numerous edited volumes.