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A collaborative research initiative studying how digital platform work can enhance women’s economic empowerment and build gender-inclusive labor markets in the Global South.

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Technology and Work in a Post-Pandemic World

This section consolidates early research on the nexus of COVID-19, technology and the world of work, illuminating key policy questions for the months and years to come.

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Blog
04 August 2020
Tech And Work

The Street Sweeper and Her Missing Gloves

In FemLab.co's new blog, Usha Raman criticizes that while women sanitation workers are praised as "Covid Warriors", little is done to protect them. Could the smartphones help as "an instrument of security, care and supportive connection?"

by Usha Raman
FemLab.co, University Of Hyderabad  
Communications, COVID-19, ICT, Women In Work, Workers Rights  
Blog
29 July 2020
Platform Economy

Uber’s Achilles Heel: The Rule of Law

As courts all over the world are holding Uber accountable on charges of infringements of workers' rights, Bama Athreya provides insights into the larger issue of a fundamental conflict between gig companies' business model and the rule of law.

by Bama Athreya
JustJobs Network, Open Society Foundations  
Collective Action, Data Labor, Deliveroo, Gig Economy, Gig Workers, Labour Law, Lyft, Uber, Workers Rights  
Video
15 July 2020
AI

Data Workers in India and the Global Data Value Chains Supporting AI Systems

What are the working and living conditions and attitudes of data workers who are doing human-computer hybrid value-added data processing tasks needed for building datasets to train AI systems? Kai-Hsin Hung, Ph.D student at the HEC Montréal, teamed up with…

by Kai-Hsin Hung
International Development Research Centre, IT For Change, Ryerson University  
Artificial Intelligence, Data Processing Labour, Data Workers, Micro Workers, Working Conditions  
Podcast
15 July 2020
Platform Economy

The Gig

The Gig is about the women and men who work in the so-called 'gig economy' worldwide. They find work through online platforms, and will tell us why we all need to be concerned about the real future of work.

by Bama Athreya
JustJobs Network Fellow, Open Society Foundations  
Gig Economy, Gig Work, Gig Workers  
Podcast
07 July 2020
Tech And Work

Joseph Stiglitz on a Post-COVID-19 Economy

Across many sectors, businesses are suspending operations to stay afloat and weather the storm. Tech firms on the other hand are seeing a rise in their market values. Tech companies were already dominating markets, and this pandemic could contribute to…

by David Skok, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Taylor Owen
Columbia University, The Logic  
COVID-19, Digital Platforms, Future Of Work, New Technology, Taxation, Trade Unions, Workers, Workers Rights  

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