Part VIII: introduction

Andrew Herod

A chapter in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 462-467 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapters in this part all address matters of work precarity. The first chapter presents an example of efforts to improve platform workers’ lives through a system of monitoring their conditions of employment. This is the Fairwork project run out of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. The next chapter investigates how a number of rural Indian women workers involved in highly-informal production of foods for a local manufacturer are renegotiating how they use the spaces of their homes as they seek to balance their work for money with their domestic social reproductive work. The third chapter considers the growth of precarious work in higher education, framing it within questions about the dynamics of racial capitalism.

Keywords: Online Labour Markets (OLMs); Mobile Labour Markets (MLMs); Mechanical Turk; Kerala; Home-based work; Terrains of the conjunctural; Abolition politics; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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