Sustaining Livelihoods in the Gig Economy: A Case Study of Paid Domestic Workers and Their Crisis of Social Reproduction in India

在零工经济中维持生计：印度有酬家庭工人及其社会再生产危机的案例研究

• 批准号: 2887669
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887669
• 关键词: Sustaining; Livelihoods; Gig; Economy; Case

This study seeks to comprehend how the daily workinglives and livelihoods of gig workers are influenced byconditions of 'home,' defined as the locus of SR activities,and how the vagaries of gig work shape social relations athome. The study focuses on a paid domestic worker (PDW)gig platform because women make up the majority of theself-employed workforce in this sector (NCEUS, 2007; Jha,2016), and among PDWs (CIS, 2021). The study willconsider the increased pressures on SR of PDWs in aplatform economy, as well as their diverse copingstrategies to sustain families and regenerative processes.In addition, the study investigates the role of the state inthe reproduction of labour power and social relations in aderegulated Indian economy. This study thus investigatesgig work from a female perspective and from the globalSouth, supplementing existing literature that is typicallyglobal North and male-centric. The study intends to conducta comparative case study across two cities in India,Mumbai and Kochi, which have higher and lower levels ofliberalisation, respectively.

这项研究旨在理解演出工人的日常工作和生计如何受到“家庭”的条件的影响，定义为SR活动的轨迹，以及演出的变幻莫测如何塑造社会关系。该研究重点关注付费的家庭工人（PDW）的演出平台，因为妇女占该领域的大多数工作人员（NCEUS，2007; JHA，2016）和PDWS（CIS，2021年）。这项研究将在Aplatform经济中对PDW的SR造成的压力增加，以及它们在维持家庭和再生过程中的多样化的交配。此外，该研究还调查了国家在违反印度经济中劳动力和社会关系的复制中的作用。因此，这项研究是从女性的角度和全球茅斯的研究，从而补充了通常以北部为中心和男性为中心的现有文献。该研究打算在印度，孟买和高知的两个城市进行比较案例研究，分别具有较高和较低的自由化水平。