"When Clean Angels Calls, I Run"

Abstract

In this chapter, Marisol Keller sheds the light on subjectivities and living realities of gig workers that work on digital care platforms. She connects her autoethnographic empirical data with the idea of platform urbanism and the understanding of platforms as critical infrastructures in cities. Her findings present how workers navigate urban spaces in rhythms demanded by the platforms and thereby (re)negotiate power imbalances that are deliberately produced by the platform. Her conclusions unveil the enormous power of the platforms in shaping spatial and temporal patterns of gig workers and care labor in today's cities.