Chapter 11 Liminal Precarity and Compromised Agency

Migrant experiences of gig work in Amsterdam, Berlin, and New York City

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van Doorn, Niels
Language
English
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Abstract
This chapter examines what moves migrants in the Global North to take up gig work and stick with it for various periods of time despite its by now well documented precarious conditions, by investigating the role that gig platforms play in their life-building trajectories.
Book
The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy
URI
https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/168396
Keywords
digital labour; Globalisation; platform economy; platform economy; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCL International economics; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics
DOI
10.4324/9781003161875-13
ISBN
9780367752903, 9780367752910
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publisher website
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/
Publication date and place
2023
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Routledge
Pages
23