Impact of COVID-19 on Gig Workers with Special Reference to Food Delivery Executives

Noonu Mary Jose (), David Joseph (), Geetanjali Purswani () and S. Girish ()
Additional contact information
Noonu Mary Jose: CHRIST (Deemed To Be University)
David Joseph: CHRIST (Deemed To Be University)
Geetanjali Purswani: CHRIST (Deemed To Be University)
S. Girish: CHRIST (Deemed To Be University)

A chapter in Sustainability in the Gig Economy, 2022, pp 111-124 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The gig economy, popularly known as shared economy or collaborative work, has acquired a public and academic interest in the twenty-first century. The concept stresses entering into short-term contracts and does not promise any permanent job. The employees in the Gig economy with temporary work relationships are also referred to as gig workers. Any unexpected change in the pulse of the economy has an impact on the gig economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the economy and the gig workers over the last few months. This book chapter provides a timely intervention into the gig workers, particularly the food delivery executives in India. Their remunerations, benefits, and difficulties from a pandemic perspective are included in the chapter. The authors try to bring in the employee’s views of the work they do and the differences, which have been brought in as an aftermath of the pandemic. The chapter also throws light on the recent government initiatives to benefit gig workers in the economy.

Keywords: Gig economy; Gig workers; COVID-19 pandemic; Impact; Food delivery executives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-8406-7_8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811684067

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8406-7_8

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().