2019/04/01 by Mark Graham, Mohammad Amir Anwar · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · #Digital Economy and Work Transformation #Sharing Economy and Platforms #Employment and Welfare Studies
paper · doi:10.5210/fm.v24i4.9913
openalex publication_date 2019/04/01 · openalex created_date 2021/02/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We are witnessing the emergence of a ‘planetary labour market’ for digital work. Building on a five-year study of digital work in some of the world’s economic margins, we show a planetary labour market does not do away with geography, it rather exists to take advantage of it. Digital technologies have been deployed in order to bring into being a labour market that can operate at a planetary scale, and has particular affordances and limitations that rarely bolster both the structural and associational power of workers.