Getting the first gig: Exploring the affective relations of accessing place-based platform labour

Keller, Marisol

doi:10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100067

Digital Geography and Society

2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100067

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Getting the first gig: Exploring the affective relations of accessing place-based platform labour

Marisol Keller

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Researching Care Platforms: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in the Broad Field of Domestic Platform Labour

Orth,

Baum

2024

Critical Sociology

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This article presents a methodological reflection on the challenges of researching domestic and care work mediated by digital labour platforms. While knowledge production on gig work in the logistics sector has soared, research on care platforms is slow to catch up, especially in very relational forms of home-based work, such as eldercare. We take this uneven development in the literature as a starting point to unpack the empirical conundrums in this field. Drawing on our own experience with trying to recruit care platform workers in Germany between 2019 and 2024, we shed light on the ethical dilemmas we encountered and offer some lessons learnt. The article calls for long-term commitments, multi-sited ethnographies, longitudinal perspectives and mixed-methods designs to study care platforms in the future. Finally, we advocate for researching platform labour beyond the gig.

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Researching Care Platforms: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in the Broad Field of Domestic Platform Labour

Orth,

Baum

2024

Critical Sociology

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Professionalization from above in domestic work: Accessing work on marketplace platforms

Ettarfi

2024

Critical Sociology

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Domestic work has always been a quintessential example of invisible labour. In this article, I explore how workers build individual visibility on marketplace platforms. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with workers who use different marketplace platforms in Geneva and surrounding areas to find domestic work, I show how visibility on marketplace platforms requires invisible work and a different set of skills, competencies, codes of conduct and client management. I argue that visibility on marketplace platforms can be interpreted as a form of professionalization from above. On one hand, visibility becomes a barrier to entry in finding work. The different requirements for building visibility lead to an institutionalization of standardized skills and practices necessary to access work on the platform. On the other hand, marketplace platforms ignore the formality of the employment relationship and decent wages, which are externalized and managed between workers and the platform clients.

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The Impact of the Gig Economy on the Labor Market in Turkey: The Case of Isin Olsun

YURGİDEN

2023

R&S - Research Studies Anatolia Journal

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Dünya üzerinde birçok alanın dijitalleşmesi, teknolojik yenilikler ve internetin hızlı gelişmesi insanların yaşam ve çalışma şekillerinde köklü değişiklikler yaratmıştır. Dünyanın küresel bir boyuttan dijital bir boyuta geçmesi, insanların yer ve zaman ayırt etmeden kolay bir şekilde istediği bilgilere ulaşma fırsatı tanımıştır. Dahası 2008 yılında yaşanan Avrupa Borç Krizi ve ardından dünya geneline hızlıca yayılan Covid-19 pandemisi, insanların evlerinde kalarak işlerini yürütebileceği düşüncesini gün yüzüne çıkarmıştır. Uzaktan çalışma fikri insanlara cazip gelerek firmaların ya da hükümetlerin bu alanda hızlı bir şekilde çalışmalar yapmasını zorunlu hale getirmiştir. Böylece bu çalışmayla Türkiye’de büyümeye başlayan gig ekonomisinin işgücü piyasasına etkisi incelenmeye başlamıştır. Bu kapsamda örneklem olarak Türkiye’nin en büyük online işe alım platformu olan Kariyer.net’in mavi yaka istihdamına katkı sağlamayı amaçlayan konum bazlı platformu “İşin Olsun’’ uygulaması seçilmiştir. Çalışma sonucunda, İşin Olsun’un Türkiye’de 78 binden fazla tam, yarı ya da esnek zamanlı (parça başı) iş ilanı ile 10 milyona yakın iş arayan kişiyi karşılaştırarak gig ekonomisine katkı sağladığı düşünülmektedir. Ayrıca, uygulamanın benzersiz özellikleri sayesinde geçici işlerde daha fazla işe almayı açık hale getirebileceği ve istihdamı arttırabileceği tahmin edilmektedir.

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Getting the first gig: Exploring the affective relations of accessing place-based platform labour

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Researching Care Platforms: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in the Broad Field of Domestic Platform Labour

Researching Care Platforms: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in the Broad Field of Domestic Platform Labour

Professionalization from above in domestic work: Accessing work on marketplace platforms

The Impact of the Gig Economy on the Labor Market in Turkey: The Case of Isin Olsun

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