According to the International Labour Organization, more than 2 billion people make their living in the informal economy. Of these 2 million workers, 740 million are women! More exposed to informal employment and in the most vulnerable situations. What does it mean to distinguish work and workers into 'formal' and 'informal'? And how does the digital gig and platform economy exacerbate issues of labor dignity?

Experts

Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad/FemLab

Sabina Dewan, JustJobs Network

Show Notes

0.27. Sabina Dewan: https://bit.ly/43XPY8n

0.53. Usha Raman: https://bit.ly/49DJVH0

1.19. FemLab.co: https://femlab.co/

1.25. FemLab symposium opening keynote: https://bit.ly/4b9PKgP

2.40. e-Shram portal: https://eshram.gov.in/

5.19. More than 60 per cent of the world’s employed population are in the informal economy; International Labour Organization Report, 2018: https://bit.ly/3PYuiTN

8.54. Work and place: The non-boundaries of women’s work, by Usha Raman: https://bit.ly/4d2e99M

8.55. Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy, edited by Payal Arora, Usha Raman, René König: https://bit.ly/3TRmswi

11.47. Why loiter? Women and risk on Mumbai streets, by Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan, Shilpa Ranade

12.01. Behanbox: https://bit.ly/4cS1tCe

13.00. Agency and servitude in platform labour: A feminist analysis of blended cultures, by Sai Amulya Komarraju, Payal Arora, Usha Raman: https://bit.ly/3VVeepl

28.28. World employment and social outlook: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work; International Labour Organization Report, 2021: https://bit.ly/3xuRAdr

38.01. Undoing unpaid work: Tackling time poverty is key to address gender inequality, by Sabina Dewan: https://bit.ly/3vOWUry

Check out our open access book: Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy, edited by Payal Arora, Usha Raman, René König: https://bit.ly/3TRmswi

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