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They sometimes intentionally make it difficult for us by creating blockages, sometimes they will just talk uselessly on the road, which delays the deliveries, or at times, they will just say that we have come here and are looting them and their land by earning more than them. Although I can attest for sure that we are earning the same amount, we have more expenses.\n\nMany migrant workers struggle extensively to make entry into the gig economy. Take for example, the issue of getting vehicles. While most delivery workers in general make deliveries on rented vehicles, most migrant workers struggle to get a vehicle because they often do not have local documents or do not have sufficient money. Even if some of them have vehicles at home, as some of them informed, it is too expensive to transport it to their ‘work-city’. However, such issues rarely get highlighted. The struggle between migrant workers and local workers on the point of employment is an old one, which goes back to the struggle between English and Irish workers during the times of Marx, and which is kept alive by the manipulation of ideological and popular discourses (Marx, 1870). The struggle between the two sections of the workforce mainly stems from the policies that always favour the developed regions’ bourgeoisie more than the underdeveloped regions (Wilson, 2017). To do this, contemporary capitalism has come to rely increasingly on technology to extend its sphere of socio-economic and cultural influence. Technology is an important part of contemporary society. However, technology cannot be viewed as having an autonomous agency in its own right because its usage and the effects of those uses depend upon the dominant dispensation in the society and the trajectory of historical progress (Harvey, 1978).\n\nThe effects of science and technology under capitalism always remain restricted by the power that the ruling and powerful classes possess over the financially and socio-culturally deprived sections of the populace. The conditions of neoliberalism, characterised by a shrinking public sector and social welfare, bring forward a massive shift in social policy which constantly neglects the needs and demands of the marginalised (Brenner & Theodore, 2005; Harvey, 2003). Delivery workers, often coming from marginalised social backgrounds, remain excluded from the mainstream labour markets and protections, the effects of which get accelerated because the practices within the platform economy have wideranging effects promoting extreme forms of work organisation (Huws, 2016a). Within such extreme changes, the issues faced by migrant workers become important because the situations faced by migrant workers in the gig economy provide a window into the extent of exploitation that resides within the totality of the gig economy. As Altenried argues:\n\n5 MIGRANT GIG WORKERS OF INDIA’S CONSUMERIST CITIES\n\n107","previous_page":106,"next_page":108}