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Cities are not created out of thin air but are rather manifestations of the social fabric including the ‘lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values’ which exists amidst the people who design and live in the city (Harvey, 2008, p. 23). A critical role in this regard in India is played by the middle classes who have been one of the most important actors in the construction of a favourable public perception surrounding the neoliberal restructuring of India (Fernandes, 2006). The growth of the middle class has coincided with the faster growth of inequality, and as such has made the positionality that the middle class enjoys in the society highly complicated. The idea of positionality has come to occupy an important position within contemporary social analysis, because it has enabled individuals to locate themselves in relation to others using ideas such as social location and the social identity that they possess (Washington, 2019). These factors play a critical role in the generation of a social consensus around exclusion, as Iqbal mentions:\n\nFirst I am a Muslim. Sometimes, people will not let me enter their homes, or apartments. It is difficult to hide also because most of these spaces have open book name policy where all names of entrants are written, and they check your AADHAR card as well and your mobile phone with the code for delivery. There is a wide difference between me on the road and me delivering. While riding, I am a delivery person, while delivering, I am a Muslim worker.\n\nGig workers like Iqbal are frequently barred from using washrooms, lifts and public spaces within enclosed spaces (Kain, 2024).<sup>26</sup> Bhalerao and Kain have argued that a key reason behind such a treatment meted out to the delivery workers is the notion of purity that has continued to remain functional in the Indian society under neoliberal capitalism. Various factors—in addition to class positions—affect one’s positioning in the society while also affecting how one gets affected by the state of crisis under capitalism. Marx (1894/1981) had argued that a crisis under capitalism does not get constituted out of a lack of capital but rather often by the existence of too much capital produced by the overproduction of capital. Under capitalism, digital inequalities become explicitly manifested when larger capitalistically organised technological infrastructures come to shape the direction and ideological fabric of science and technology in the society (Risi & Pronzato, 2021). Under contemporary capitalism, technology has frequently been used to routinise certain experiences in such a way that those routines create avenues for profit maximisation and platform-based delivery work is a part of it.\n\n5 MIGRANT GIG WORKERS OF INDIA’S CONSUMERIST CITIES\n\n129\n\n<sup>26</sup> Also see Bhalerao, M. (2021). The ‘Digesting’ Discrimination Within The Gig Economy. Feminism in India, October, 06, https://feminisminindia.com/2021/10/06/ the-digesting-discrimination-within-the-gig-economy/ [Accessing 04.07.2024].","previous_page":128,"next_page":130}