迷失在零工经济的危险林荫大道上:制造人类无人机

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Rajesh Gupta, Rajneesh Gupta
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随着信息技术和相关基础设施的进步,零工经济正在向世界上越来越多的城市扩张。在印度等新兴经济体,由于城市化和互联网连接的不断增强,许多服务都是通过技术平台提供的,而且数量正在快速增长。然而,人们对基于应用程序的就业对工人的影响知之甚少。在线送餐行业是一个合适的调查领域。这位可有可无的送餐员在单调的工作中有多脆弱?这些工人受雇于控制他们的移动应用程序下,就像在科幻游戏中一样。经常被手机应用程序监视意味着什么?零工经济的灵活性是否会影响这些男孩的技能和抱负?它是否使工人失去人性,并将他们变成人类无人机?这项研究描绘了送餐男孩及其家人的生活经历,迄今为止,这一经历一直落后于印度平台经济的巨大成功。本研究使用访谈和参与者观察的方法来研究零工工人,并运用维度分析来揭示背景,发现了不引人注目的非人性化的证据。鉴于这种零工工人的迅速增长趋势,这项研究的结果呼吁对零工经济的社会影响进行更深入的分析,并具有深远的影响。
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Lost in the Perilous Boulevards of Gig Economy: Making of Human Drones
Along with advancements in information technology and related infrastructure, the gig economy is expanding to more and more cities in the world. In emerging economies like India, due to increasing urbanisation and Internet connectivity, many services are being delivered through technology platforms, and their numbers are growing fast. However, not much is known about the impact of app-based employment on the workers. The online food delivery sector is a suitable segment to probe the same. How vulnerable is this ever-dispensable food delivery employee in his monotonous job? These workers are employed under the mobile apps that control them like in a sci-fi game. What does it mean to be constantly under the mobile app surveillance? Does the flexibility of the gig economy impact the skills and aspirations of these boys? Does it dehumanise the workers and transform them into human drones? This study maps the lived experience of food delivery boys and their families, which has so far remained behind the celebrated success of the platform economy in India. Using both interview and participant observation methods to study gig workers and deploying dimensional analysis to unpack the context, this study finds evidence of unobtrusive dehumanisation. Given the mushrooming trend of such gig workers, the findings of this study call for a deeper analysis of the social impact of the gig economy and have far-reaching implications.
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CiteScore
2.30
自引率
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发文量
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期刊介绍: South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management (SAJHRM) is a peer-reviewed scholarly outlet for publications on HRM in and out of South Asia. It includes countries that are members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), namely, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In terms of the discipline focus, all articles broadly focusing on the theory and practice of managing human resources for the benefit of individuals, firms and community at large will be acceptable. In view of the contemporary focus on Strategic HRM, the journal coverage would also include comparative research and other related management disciplines as long as one of the key aims of the manuscript is on harnessing the potential of human capital. Considering the uneven economic development within the South Asian region, the journal encourages potential authors to explore broader implications of their scholarly views and findings on the region as a whole. A distinguishing feature of the journal is its focus on “HR in Practice”. Apart from theory, it will pay significant attention on how HRM is practiced in and out of South Asia. The journal features conceptual and empirical research papers, research notes, interviews, case studies and book reviews. In short, to be considered for publication, a manuscript should broadly focus on managing people and contextualised within one or more South Asian countries at the firm, regional, national and international levels.
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