Digital platform work

The project explores the opportunities and challenges resulting from the rise of digital labour platforms in the care sector and beyond.

Using feminist labour geography perspectives, we analyse the digitalisation processes and tools underpinning platform labour mediation. We assess their impact on the meaning of work, and subsequently on its social, spatial and temporal (re)organization. Our aim is to better understand and theorise how platform mediated labour forms workers’ subjectivities and reshapes gendered and intersectional inequalities in the world of work.

We examine questions related to how labour platforms and the dematerialised social relations they induce change working conditions for low wage workers. We ask how trust is built between workers, clients and the platform.