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Swiggy gets more late night deliveries, that is why I selected it. Earlier I was like okay, the security work pays me enough, but then they started saying that some robots are coming up, so I started searching for an alternative job. With all these new machines in security, the need of security workers is also coming down. Someday, we will become obsolete.\n\nTechnology does not operate within a vacuum. The abundance and domination of technology signals the ushering in of an era of ‘extreme supply’ where machines become capable of undertaking both cognitive and manual responsibilities of the production process (Bastani, 2019). This gives rise to tendencies that celebrate the ushering in of algorithmic management-based techniques which demand that migrants and locales are treated akin to each other while leaving behind the internal contradictions existing between the people belonging to these categories. Getting a job becomes important for migrants because that creates the avenues for a better acquaintance with the space that they occupy (Abkhezr & McMahon, 2022). The contemporary society is a society where technological apparatuses and their associated networks dominate a significant part of human lives. Migrant gig workers in India continue to suffer from the effects of the dialectical relationship that exists between territorial logic and the logic of capitalist profit expansion (Harvey, 2003, 2014). Gig work does not emerge out of a vacuum but rather gains prominence because of the structural transformation that occurs within markets going through neoliberalisation which encourages individualisation, structural violence and a growing financialisation of human selves. The growth of neoliberalism has affected the very core of capitalism with a greater remodulation of productive and accumulation strategies emphasising market relations and mechanisation (Giroux, 2014; Leonardi & Pirina, 2020). Under such circumstances, the question of belongingness becomes an important part of the urban ontology that migrant workers.\n\n4 Migrant Belongingness and Deli<sub>v</sub>ery Work in Urban India\n\nThe question of migration in India is intimately related to other aspects of social stratification such as caste and race (Gopalakrishnan et al., 2018). The growth of migrant workers in gig work despite the worsening conditions of work is because gig work provides these workers with an easier access to employment, something which many of them remain in desperate need of (Katta et al., 2024). Coupled with this, the focus on standardisation reinforces Marx’s (1867/1976) proposition that under capitalism, the relationship between human beings is degraded to a relationship between commodities completely dehumanising the worker in the process, as has been shown in the two preceding sections. The commodity form constitutes the basic fulcrum around which the capitalist society is constructed. Every major restructuring that capitalism has attempted to institutionalise in the society has revolved around the potential benefits that it can provide to the domination and circulation of the commodity form in the society. These modes of restructuring have benefitted from the growth of technological interventions because technological developments have come to replace the erstwhile dominance of service-based models and have become major drivers of economic growth (Zukin, 1987).\n\n5 MIGRANT GIG WORKERS OF INDIA’S CONSUMERIST CITIES\n\n121","previous_page":120,"next_page":122}