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Gig and platform workers’ perspectives on worker collectives
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by
Shaik Salauddin
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published
Aug 13, 2024
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy
This report highlights findings from a survey conducted by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers’ Union on platform workers’ perspectives around various worker collectives, particularly platform worker unions and cooperative societies. The survey was conducted with workers working for app-based platform companies like Ola, Uber, InDriver, Swiggy, Zomato, and Flipkart.
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IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19
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by
Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office
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published
Sep 17, 2020
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last modified
Jun 29, 2021 07:27 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Labour,
Covid19,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Featured,
Homepage
This report, by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, explores the responses to the outbreak of Covid-19 by digital platform based companies, trade unions, and governments to help out workers for digital platform based companies hereafter app based workers during the lockdown. The research work in this article is a characterization of the struggles of app based workers during the global pandemic and how it has affected and changed the world of work for them. The surveys were conducted amongst the workforce working for app based companies like Ola, Uber, Swiggy, Zomato etc. This study is partially supported by CIS as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network led by the Association for Progressive Communications.
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IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and Safety
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by
Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office
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published
Jun 25, 2021
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last modified
Jun 29, 2021 06:53 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Labour,
Covid19,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Featured,
Homepage
Between July to November 2019, Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, conducted 2,128 surveys across 6 major cities: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Lucknow, to determine the occupational health and safety of app-based transport workers. CIS is proud to publish the study report and the press release. Akash Sheshadri, Ambika Tandon, and Aayush Rathi of CIS supported post-production of this report.
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Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisations
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by
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 22, 2020
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last modified
Dec 22, 2020 09:52 AM
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filed under:
Submissions,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in response to the public consultation of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the draft Code on Social Security Rules, 2020. Here are the overview, full text of the submitted inputs, and names of organisations and individuals who endorsed them.
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Karnataka’s uniform fare policy—Do attempts at parity consider the impact on workers?
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by
Chiara Furtado and Nishkala Sekhar
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published
Jul 08, 2024
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy
Chiara Furtado and Nishkala Sekhar write in The News Minute about the Karnataka transport department’s February 2024 fare policy aiming for parity between aggregator (app-based) and other taxis. While policy interventions towards parity is a welcome step, the article highlights how inequalities and systemic barriers to parity remain for workers.
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Labour futures: Intersectional responses to southern digital platform economies
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by
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Jan 27, 2021 08:43 AM
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy
It is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a two-year research project to comprehensively analyse dominant and emerging sectors in India’s platform economies. The project is funded by a research grant of USD 200,000 from the Internet Society Foundation.
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Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 01, 2019
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last modified
Apr 01, 2019 08:00 AM
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filed under:
Practice,
Art,
RAW Events,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Event
Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.
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Mock-Calling – Ironies of Outsourcing and the Aspirations of an Individual
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by
Sreedeep
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published
Aug 06, 2015
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last modified
Aug 06, 2015 05:00 AM
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filed under:
Spaces of Digital,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Sreedeep is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. He is an independent photographer and a Fellow at the Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. In this essay, Sreedeep explores the anxieties and ironies of the unprecedented IT/BPO boom in India through the perspective and experiences of a new entrant in the industry, a decade ago. The narrative tries to capture some of the radical
hedonistic consequences of the IT-burst on our lifestyles, imagination and aspirations delineated and fraught with layers of conscious deception and prolonged probation.
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Noopur Raval and Rajendra Jadhav - Power Chronography of Food-Delivery Work
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by
Noopur Raval and Rajendra Jadhav
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published
Jan 15, 2020
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last modified
May 19, 2020 06:33 AM
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Network Economies,
Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Labour in India
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every interaction and movement. This essay by Noopur Raval and Rajendra Jadhav is the fourth among a series of writings by researchers associated with the 'Mapping Digital Labour in India' project at the CIS, supported by the Azim Premji University, that were published on the Platypus blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC).
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Platformisation of Domestic Work in India: Report from a Multistakeholder Consultation
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by
Tasneem Mewa
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published
Feb 17, 2020
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last modified
Feb 17, 2020 09:46 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
RAW Events,
Digital Labour,
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Domestic Work
On November 16, 2019, The Centre for Internet and Society invited officials from the Department of Labour (Government of Karnataka), members of domestic worker unions, domestic workers, company representatives, and civil society researchers at the Student Christian Mission of India House to discuss preliminary findings of an ongoing research project and facilitate a multistakeholder consultation to understand the contemporaneous platformisation of domestic work in India. Please find here a report from this consultation authored by Tasneem Mewa.
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