Observing Workers at Their Places of Work

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Bartye: Most of the people we interviewed and observed at work had been beauty workers for a long time, traditionally. So in that sense, the problem in the space for the companies to solve is not, in fact, to train people ito hav to do this work. But they still had to give them a somewhere between one to ten days of train all at the company's cost. Bartye: I think i wanted kind of double down on what you are talking about there, because i found that part of the paper really interesting as well.

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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