Reframing labor: towards a planetary labor market

Jonas C.L. Valente and Mark Graham

Chapter 14 in A Research Agenda for Economic Geography, 2025, pp 189-202 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter analyzes how the emergence of the gig economy and digital labor platforms are reframing labor relations compared to standard employment models. We do so by focusing on cloudwork (online remote work) platforms, understood as a critical frontier of the rise of a new planetary labor market. The chapter first discusses the work relations on cloudwork platforms, drawing from multiple aspects of the labor process. These include contracts, work allocation, wages and payment, and management. The chapter then examines how platforms bring into being distinct spatial divisions of labor on a global scale. In particular, we assess how cloudwork platforms are contributing to the reconfiguration of global labor relations, changing the international division of labor, and redefining the roles of different regions in this now planetary labor market.

Keywords: Digital labor platforms; Digital labor; Cloudwork; Planetary labor market; Spatial divisions of labor; Labor process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035339914
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