Digital Platform Employment in Kazakhstan: Can New Technologies Solve Old Problems in the Labor Market?

IF 0.5 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Sabina Insebayeva, Serik Beyssembayev
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Abstract Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in the “sharing,” “gig,” or “on-demand” economy, which has been changing the relationships between customers, workers, and companies. While literature on the gig economy in the Western context abounds, few studies have focused on “digitalized” labor relations in the Central Asian context. Drawing on qualitative field research in Kazakhstan in 2016 and 2021, supplemented by quantitative data, this article contributes to debates about labor relations and the digitalized “gig” economy in a non-Western context. It provides a novel, in-depth, multisource account of the structure of platform-based business and work experiences in the digitally enabled Kazakh gig economy. Using ethnographic evidence, we offer a detailed analysis of labor conditions from the perspective of platform-based companies and gig workers, identifying resistance and “survival” strategies used to navigate and even challenge the existing system characterized by “algorithmic management” or “algorithm-based” labor relations.
哈萨克斯坦的数字平台就业:新技术能解决劳动力市场的老问题吗?
近年来,人们对“共享”、“零工”或“按需”经济的兴趣激增,这种经济正在改变客户、员工和公司之间的关系。虽然西方背景下关于零工经济的文献很多,但很少有研究关注中亚背景下的“数字化”劳资关系。本文借鉴2016年和2021年在哈萨克斯坦进行的定性实地研究,辅以定量数据,为非西方背景下的劳资关系和数字化“零工”经济的辩论做出了贡献。它提供了一个新颖的、深入的、多来源的关于哈萨克斯坦数字经济中基于平台的业务结构和工作经验的描述。利用民族志证据,我们从平台型公司和零工工人的角度对劳动条件进行了详细分析,确定了用于导航甚至挑战以“算法管理”或“基于算法的”劳动关系为特征的现有系统的阻力和“生存”策略。
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期刊介绍: ILWCH has an international reputation for scholarly innovation and quality. It explores diverse topics from globalisation and workers’ rights to class and consumption, labour movements, class identities and cultures, unions, and working-class politics. ILWCH publishes original research, review essays, conference reports from around the world, and an acclaimed scholarly controversy section. Comparative and cross-disciplinary, the journal is of interest to scholars in history, sociology, political science, labor studies, global studies, and a wide range of other fields and disciplines. Published for International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc.
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