This book provides crucial insights that enhance our understanding of these emerging labour modalities, and it also suggests that we are witnessing the rise of new struggles and forms of resistance. This dynamic reveals that the evolving morphology of labour is giving rise to a new morphology of social struggles.”
—Ricardo Antunes, State University ofCampinas, Brazil
“This book is a collective attempt to reveal the latest dynamics of global capitalism with platform and gig economy. It is shown that the new digital technology has not been used to ensure comfort or leisure for the global working class; but, on the contrary, used to extract super profit by making them more alienated, more vulnerable, more unprotected, more precarious, 24x7 job with no holidays, no trade union, no regular income.
In the present neoliberal global (dis)order, war, conflict, unemployment and insecurity often drive more people to leave their home or country and add them to increasing number of migrant labour, now visible portion of global workforce. In fact, capitalism in global scale has not been able to create decent, safe and regular jobs, rather created sea of unemployed work force, easy prey for precarious work.
This book by compiling articles focuses on global south and also specific studies on India, Portugal, Greece, UK, Italy, China has brought new facts and insights crucial to understand development of ‘platform capitalism’ and the gig economy as well as the failure of traditional trade unions and looking for other ways for organizing workers.”
—Anu Muhammad, Professor ofEconomics (and anthropology) at Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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PRAISE FOR MIGRANTLABOUR IN THE GIG ECONOMY