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The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban India
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi contributed an essay on how gated society management apps like MyGate and NoBrokerHood feed on caste and income inequalities in ... by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi last modified Apr 19, 2024 03:11 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
That Is Not A Livelihood – That Is Helplessness”: Field notes from the Fraazo Delivery Workers Strike in Noida, Greater Noida, and Ghaziabad
In this essay, Rikta Krishnaswamy of the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) narrates her experiences of organising and supporting delivery workers’ ... by Rikta Krishnaswamy last modified Apr 24, 2024 02:05 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Digital mediation of domestic and care work in India: Project Announcement
It is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a study on digital mediation of domestic and care work in India, as part of and supported by the ... by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi last modified Oct 10, 2019 08:09 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Doing Standpoint Theory
Feminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist ... by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi last modified Dec 06, 2019 04:59 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Domestic Work in the ‘Gig Economy’
The CIS and Domestic Workers’ Rights Union (DWRU) are hosting a discussion on the ‘gig economy’ and domestic work on Saturday, November 16 at Student Christian ... by Aayush Rathi last modified Dec 06, 2019 04:52 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Platforms, Power and Politics: Digital Labour in India
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) invites you to a webinar wherein it will launch and present four research reports on digital labour in India. The ... by Ambika Tandon last modified Jul 20, 2021 02:42 AM — Filed under: , ,
COVID-19 Charter Of Recommendations on Gig Work
Tandem Research and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a webinar on 9 April 2020, with unions representing gig workers and researchers studying ... by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon last modified May 13, 2020 08:53 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
Simiran Lalvani - Workers’ Fictive Kinship Relations in Mumbai App-based Food Delivery
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their ... by Simiran Lalvani last modified May 19, 2020 06:25 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Zothan Mawii - COVID-19 and Relief Measures for Gig Workers in India
CIS is cohosted a webinar with Tandem Research on the impact of the COVID-19 response on the gig economy on 9 April 2020. It was a closed door discussion ... by Zothan Mawii (Tandem Research) last modified May 19, 2020 05:41 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
A Compilation of Research on the Gig Economy
Over the past year, researchers at CIS have been studying gig economies and gig workers in India. Their work has involved consultative discussions with ... by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified May 19, 2020 08:20 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Labour futures: Intersectional responses to southern digital platform economies
It is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a two-year research project to comprehensively analyse dominant and emerging sectors in India’s ... by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon last modified Jan 27, 2021 08:43 AM — Filed under: , ,
Your economy, our livelihoods: A policy brief by the All India Gig Workers’ Union
In this policy brief, the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) presents its critique on NITI Aayog’s report on India’s platform economy. Through experiences ... by W.C. Shukla, Rikta Krishnaswamy, Rohin Garg, Gunjan Jena, and S.B. Natarajan last modified Jan 31, 2024 12:02 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Workers’ experiences in app-based taxi and delivery sectors: Key initial findings from multi-city quantitative surveys
In 2021-22, the labour research vertical at CIS conducted quantitative surveys with over 1,000 taxi and delivery workers employed in the app-based and offline ... by Aayush Rathi, Abhishek Sekharan, Ambika Tandon, Chetna V. M., Chiara Furtado, and Nishkala Sekhar last modified Feb 16, 2024 01:27 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisations
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in ... by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon last modified Dec 22, 2020 09:52 AM — Filed under: , , ,
IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and Safety
Between July to November 2019, Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, ... by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office last modified Jun 29, 2021 06:53 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19
This report, by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, explores the ... by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office last modified Jun 29, 2021 07:27 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford (Nov 03, 6:30 pm)
We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the Convergence of ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Mar 13, 2019 12:30 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Platformisation of Domestic Work in India: Report from a Multistakeholder Consultation
On November 16, 2019, The Centre for Internet and Society invited officials from the Department of Labour (Government of Karnataka), members of domestic worker ... by Tasneem Mewa last modified Feb 17, 2020 09:46 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
#MappingDigitalLabour - Panel discussion on platform-work in Mumbai and New Delhi
With the rise and popularity of app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber, Swiggy Zomato, and others, there are growing public conversation about regulation of ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jul 20, 2019 11:58 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Sarah Zia - Not knowing as pedagogy: Ride-hailing drivers in Delhi
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their ... by Sarah Zia last modified May 19, 2020 06:35 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Anushree Gupta - Ladies ‘Log’: Women’s Safety and Risk Transfer in Ridehailing
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their ... by Anushree Gupta last modified May 19, 2020 06:29 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Noopur Raval and Rajendra Jadhav - Power Chronography of Food-Delivery Work
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find ... by Noopur Raval and Rajendra Jadhav last modified May 19, 2020 06:33 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
From Health and Harassment to Income Security and Loans, India's Gig Workers Need Support
Deemed an 'essential service' by most state governments, and thereby exempt from temporary suspension during the COVID-19 lockdown, food, groceries and other ... by Zothan Mawii (Tandem Research), Aayush Rathi (CIS), and Ambika Tandon (CIS) last modified May 19, 2020 06:57 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Roundtable on India’s Gig-work Economy
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their ... by Noopur Raval, Anushree Gupta, Rajendra Jadhav, Sarah Zia, and Simiran Lalvani last modified May 19, 2020 06:36 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession
Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Apr 01, 2019 08:00 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Mock-Calling – Ironies of Outsourcing and the Aspirations of an Individual
This post by Sreedeep is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. He is an independent photographer and a Fellow at the Centre for Public Affairs and ... by Sreedeep last modified Aug 06, 2015 05:00 AM — Filed under: , , ,