Gender and Intersectional Inequalities in the Platform Economy

Introduction

Paula Rodriguez-Modroño, Annarosa Pesole and Ivana Pais

PART 1: Digital labour platforms and intersectional inequalities

1. Access to Work in the Kenyan Digital Economy: Resilience, Resistance and Digital Intersectionality in the UPDATE Project

Claire Somerville, Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos, and Salome Bukachi in collaboration with UPDATE Team

2. The Digital Double Shift: How the Flexibility Myth and Therapeutic Maternalism Engender Platform Therapy

Livia Garofalo and Suisui Wang

3. Digital Platform Work and Gender Discrimination: an Analysis of the European Platforms Directive

Claire Marzo

4. The Impact of the Platform Economy on Gender and Social Inequalities in Eastern Europe: A Case Study of Moldova and Lithuania 

Ligita Gasparėnienė, Rita Remeikienė, Dorin Vaculovschi, Liliana Staver and Ilona Michailovič

5. The Social Status of Platform Economy Work: Prestige and Social Value Dynamics and their Social Structuration

Christoph Lutz and Gemma Newlands

PART 2: Care and domestic work platforms

6. Domestic Work Platforms in the Global South: A State-of-the-Art Review and Lessons from Mexico

Fernanda Teixeira

7. Negotiating Working Conditions: The Case of Domestic Work Mediated by Digital Platforms in Argentina

Lorena Poblete, Ania Tizziani and Francisca Pereyra

8. Women Workers in India’s Digital/ Platform economy 

Neha Arya and  Abhishek Nemuri

9. Gendered Insecurity and the Informalisation of Work on Domestic and Care Platforms in Belgium

Milena Franke, Claudia Marà and Valeria Pulignano

10. The Platformization of care in Spain: Examining the Sustainability and Potential Gendered Impacts of Platform Models

Valentina Viego, Ángela Medina-Calvo and  Paula Rodriguez-Modroño

11. Redefining Digital Labour Platforms Through a Technico-Organizational Approach: A Study of Care and Cleaning in French-Speaking Switzerland Through the Lens of Interfaces

Camille Budon, Jessica Pidoux and Núria Sánchez-Mira

12. Transformation and Platformization of Domestic Work in Italy: A Qualitative Case Study in Milan on Digital Labour Platforms and Other Digital Spaces

Beatrice Busi, Alina Dambrosio Clementelli and Annalisa Murgia

13. Conclusions

Ivana Pais, Paula Rodriguez-Modroño and Annarosa Pesole

Biography

Paula Rodríguez-Modroño, PhD in economics from Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) and MPhil in development studies from University of Cambridge, is Professor of Economics and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Women's, Gender and Feminist Studies (CINEF) and the Master Programme for Gender and Equality at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla.

Annarosa Pesole, PhD in economics from Università degli Studi di Milano Statale (Italy), is a labour economist specialised in new forms of digital labour and technological change. She is an expert consultant on digital and labour policies for the European Commission and the United Nations.

Ivana Pais is Full Professor of Economic Sociology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (Italy), where she directs the Transformative Actions Interdisciplinary Laboratory (TRAILab).