Worker Flexibility

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About a hundred women workers struck outside one of the platform company offices in dely, on the outskirts of delly. And i think it was about three or four days of the strike, and the pany had to agree to their demands. So you're returning to the question of flexibility. I think it's, if you look it from the workers perspective, i think it's a negotiation they have to neg tiate on a daily basis. They negotiate often by building personal relationships with the mid level managers or inturns. It also helped that there was a lot of news reporting that, you know, probably wasn't available in the earlier times. But it was a very well covered

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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