1st Edition
The Gig Economy in India Start-Ups, Infrastructure and Resistance
By Pradip Ninan Thomas
Copyright 2025
144 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India’s digital political economy, and the relationship between key factors such as start-ups, state governments, and platform providers.
The book begins by placing the gig economy in context, defining the platform ecosystem and the Indian government’s perception of its problems and opportunities. Thomas then examines the critical... Read more
Introduction: The Platform Economy in India
1. India Stack, Techno-Optimism and Platform Contradictions
2. The Governance/Mis-Governance of Start-Ups
3. Venture Capitalism, Informality and the Gig Economy
4. AI, Machine Learning and Gig Workers in India
5. Resistance
6. Cloud, Data Centres and the Politics of Infrastructure
7. AI, Risk and The Gig Economy
Biography
Pradip Ninan Thomas is at the School of Arts and Communications at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of 12 books, including Information Infrastructures in India: The Long View (2022) and Platform Regulation: Exemplars, Approaches and Solutions (2023).
