The Role of Professionalism in Platform Company Jobs

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The global north scholarship compels you to ask, how do you feel about this job? Right? Do you like this job? Do you not like this job. And i feel like the global north answer, in many ways, is like, of course this is oppressive. You know, companies that are not employing these workers are forcing them to do certain things to represent the brand of the company. So this has to be exploitative or oppressive or unpleasant. That's where the rift happened. Because the wellness company workers, they did not love the company. They don't hate the company, but it it's a different kind of relationship. But coming back to e the project of professionalism,

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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