For platform workers, this means local platform workers mostly experience worse job quality (largely due to lower bargaining power) but also greater org influence and less isolation and similar influence over job conten, work intensity, job insecurity and reputational insecurity.

i.e. where workers experience greater bargaining power or qualitatively different technologies we expect job quality to differ.

We use these differences to support the model of job quality that I previously developed with
@geoplace.bsky.social (Mark Graham) and
Vili Lehdonvirta in which job quality is understood as determined through the interplay of technological affordances and bargaining power.

Based on a survey of 500+ platform workers Nick Martindale, Brendan Burchell and I empirically demonstrate how job quality differs across different platform work types (local Vs. remote).

1. We argue that emergent unions like Connect_IFAT
and TGPWU in India's gig and platform sector aren’t just 'new' unions & orgs. They're part of a longer history of formal & informal labour struggles, pulling from Reena Agarwala's 1st, 2nd & 3rd waves of legal empowerment.

6.And we set them up globally.
From recent work by Umney et al. @digitcentre.bsky.social
to @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social
and others', we attempt to situate Indian gig worker organising in a wider international conversation. There are patterns, but also crucial divergences

Alice I'm back at Cambridge now, when do you start?

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