It's hard to estimate how many people work in the gig economy, because there's a lot of politics and weird things going on around labor statistics per se. But it would not be an exaggeration to say that somewhere between a few hundred thousand and a million workers are loyt in reris gig economy services in india right now. Some of these trends do map on to a labor base migration, as well as on what we call domestic migration,. based on where people travel from and where people travel too, in order to get education as well as employment. A so some of the trends that i could helpfully point to includes things such as, write, historically, traditionally, the north
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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