Is There Flexibility?

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This is a tricky one, because i feel like most of the curiosity in academiat least around whether there is flexibility or not. But i like to look at it from the perspective of workers themselves. So i did ask them this question when they were taking up the jobs,. And i said, you know, how how flexible would you say this platform is? It's crucial, because when you ask a how question, it also allows them to culate what they mean, or what they understand by flexibility at their end. They articulated flexibility in some of these ways. Ah'm so like, i think it's in the paper as well. H and especially when this particular company was trying to

Paris Marx is joined by Noopur Raval to discuss India’s gig economy, the specific conditions of women who provide services through beauty and wellness apps, and how workers organize to improve their conditions.

Noopur Raval is a postdoctoral research fellow at the AI Now Institute at New York University. Follow Noopur on Twitter at @tetisheri.

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