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This article already published? Pada Kamis, 28 Februari 2019, Alex Wood <[log in to unmask]> menulis: > Our new open access article, 'Networked but Commodified: The > (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy', in *Sociology *might > be of interest to members of this list: > > > *Abstract* > > This article investigates the (dis)embeddedness of digital labour within > the remote gig economy. We use interview and survey data to highlight how > platform workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are normatively > disembedded from social protections through a process of commodification. > Normative disembeddedness leaves workers exposed to the vagaries of the > external labour market due to an absence of labour regulations and rights. > It also endangers social reproduction by limiting access to healthcare and > requiring workers to engage in significant unpaid ‘work-for-labour’. > However, we show that these workers are also simultaneously embedded within > interpersonal networks of trust, which enable the work to be completed > despite the low-trust nature of the gig economy. In bringing together the > concepts of normative and network embeddedness, we reconnect the two sides > of Polanyi’s thinking and demonstrate the value of an integrated > understanding of Polanyi’s approach to embeddedness for understanding > contemporary economic transformations. > > > Dr Alex J. Wood > Researcher Oxford Internet Institute > University of Oxford > https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/alex-j-wood/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-RESEARCH list, click the > following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1= > INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-RESEARCH&A=1 > -- *Fadlan Khaerul Anam* - Department of Sociology Faculty of Social and Political Science University of Indonesia Depok 16424, West Java, Indonesia Website: http://universitasindonesia.academia.edu/FadlanKhaerulAnam - ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-RESEARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-RESEARCH&A=1