The global gig economy: Toward a planetary labor market

Mark Graham; Mohammad Amir Anwar

doi:10.4324/9780429317866-13

The global gig economy: Toward a planetary labor market

Mark Graham, Mohammad Amir Anwar

School of Social and Political Science

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We are witnessing the emergence of a “planetary labor market” for digital work. Building on a five-year study of digital gig work in some of the world’s economic margins, we show a planetary labor market does not do away with geography, it rather exists to take advantage of it. Digital technologies have been deployed in order to bring into being a labor market that can operate at a planetary scale, and has particular affordances and limitations that rarely bolster both the structural and associational power of workers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Digital Transformation of Labor
Subtitle of host publication	Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare
Editors	Anthony Larsson, Robin Teigland
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	13
Pages	213-234
Number of pages	22
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000730784
ISBN (Print)	9780367330705, 9781032084930
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429317866-13
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2019

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Name	Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
Publisher	Routledge

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The Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare. ed. / Anthony Larsson; Robin Teigland. 1st. ed. London: Routledge, 2019. p. 213-234 (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics).

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