Contents
1 Introduction: Migrant Labour in the Platform
Economy—The Intersection of Labour Digitization,
Platform Capitalism, Migration, and Resistance 1
Francesco Della Puppa, Dipsita Dhar, and Nicola Montagna
Part I Vulnerability and Inherent Precarity of Migrant
Workers in Gig Economy
2 Migrant Labour in the Greek Gig Economy 21
Lefteris Kretsos and Vassilis Charitsis
3 Digital Caporalato and Migrant Labour in the Gig
Economy 59
Gianmarco Peterlongo
4 Delivering in the Lagoon. Critical Reflections
on the Flexibility of Platformised Food Delivery in Venice 79
Giorgio Pirina
5 Migrant Gig Workers of India’s Consumerist Cities:
The Contradictions of Platform Economy and Delivery
Work in Neoliberal India 99
Suddhabrata Deb Roy
6 Vulnerability and Resistance Among Digital
and Platform Immigrant Workers in Portugal 145
Isabel Roque
Part II Strategies of Resistance
7 Organising Migrant Platform Workers in London: The
Case of IWGB 175
Paolo Borghi and Annalisa Murgia
8 Migration, Precarity and Solidarity Among Migrant
Platform Workers in China’s Food Delivery
and Ride-Hailing Sectors 197
Yang Zhou
9 Transversal Unionism: Resisting and Navigating
a Neoliberal City Through Identity and Labour Power 231
Dipsita Dhar, Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat,
and Soham Bhattacharya
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