Khaoula ETTARFI, University of Zürich, Switzerland
This presentation makes a theoretical contribution to the current debate on platform mediated labour by engaging social reproduction as a theoretical lens to discuss how current platformization of care and domestic labour can create and/or transform already existing and entrenched gendered and racialised inequalities and power structures. In the context of this research, we understand platformization as an active process of urbanisation leading to new formations and restructuring of labour and workers, but also as a labour process reorganizing spatial relations to allow for surplus labor and the mediation of crisis of accumulation. Platformization is also moving the site of struggle from different sites of production to the everyday. Therefore, we argue for the importance for labour geography and current debates on the transformation of work to engage more with social reproduction and everyday struggles to move the debate beyond the wage relation and economic production. In addition, social reproduction as a theoretical lens can highlight the different spatialities and temporalities of the everyday, along with a richer debate on difference and differentiation encountered on digital labour platforms.
Mots clés : care work|platformization|social reproduction|labour|inequalities
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