Gender and Intersectional Inequalities in the Platform Economy by Paula Rodríguez Modroño

Gender and Intersectional Inequalities in the Platform Economy by Paula Rodríguez Modroño

This book examines different key aspects around new forms of work and gender and intersectional inequalities in platforms, how the platform economy intervenes, changes and reconfigures the organization of work, and the challenges faced by policymakers and workers’ organizations regarding formalization, professionalization, remuneration, quality of work or social protection of platform work.

Including case studies from different countries from the Global North and the Global South, it contributes to a better understanding of how digital platforms are inserting themselves into neoliberal transformations in labour markets, taking advantage of digitization, the commodification of reproductive labour and migrant labour regimes to quickly access a precaritized female migrant workforce with low bargaining power.

It will be of interest to all scholars and students of gender studies, health and social care and sociology more broadly.

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).