Migrant Gig Workers of India’s Consumerist Cities: The Contradictions of Platform Economy and Delivery Work in Neoliberal India
Suddhabrata Deb Roy
1 Introduction
The world today that human beings inhabit is one that has grown to accept urbanism as a distinct way of life. Urbanism has triumphed over all other pre-existing ways of life, with urban spaces becoming the representative forms of the capitalist way of life in most societies. In India as well—a country historically known for harbouring a multitude of social and financial shortages (Sau, 1984)—urban spaces have come to be deemed as one of the most important markers and drivers of progress and development along with technology (Lefebvre, 1991; Stewart, 1977). The interconnectedness of space, nature and capitalist production and
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<sub>S.</sub> <sub>D.</sub> <sub>Roy</sub> <sub>(</sub>B<sub>)</sub> University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand e-mail: suddhabratadebroy@gmail.com
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