@inbook{223efdba99d840c3b109af6d5634440e,
title = "Platformizing Informality, One Gig at a Time",
abstract = "The emergence of increasingly powerful and affordable digital technologies with applications across a range of domains to extract business value has generated much excitement about {\textquoteleft}digital disruption{\textquoteright} (see Hill, 2017). This phenomenon of disruption, in the language of the Regulation theorists, represents a change in the “regime of accumulation{\textquoteright}, based on Fordist mass production combined with mass consumption that has been prevalent since the mid-twentieth century, especially in the Global North (Jessop, 1990). While post-Fordism followed multiple trajectories, its leitmotif so far has been flexibility: flexibly-specialised production systems, flexible firms, flexible labour markets and flexible accumulation (Peck, 2018). The latter two sources of flexibility are attributed by Regulationists to changes in the {\textquoteleft}modes of social regulation{\textquoteright}, or a set of co-evolving socio-political institutions, especially the Keynesian welfare state in its various forms (Jessop, 1990).",
keywords = "informality, platform work, global south, global north, informal work, digital labour platforms",
author = "Alessio Bertolini and Mark Graham and Mounika Neerukonda and Sanna Ojanper{\"a} and Balaji Parthasarathy and Janaki Srinivasan and Pradyumna Taduri and {Ustek Spilda}, Funda",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-11462-5_2",
language = "English",
series = "Dynamics of Virtual Work",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "13--45",
booktitle = "Platformization and Informality",
}
