Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms...

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Autores: Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula, Agenjo-Calderón, Astrid, López Igual, Purificación
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO)
Repositorio:RIO. Repositorio Institucional Olavide
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:rio.upo.es:10433/22286
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22286
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Platform economy
Migrant women
Intersectional inequalities
Care work
Feminist economics
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spelling Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workersRodríguez-Modroño, PaulaAgenjo-Calderón, AstridLópez Igual, PurificaciónPlatform economyMigrant womenIntersectional inequalitiesCare workFeminist economicsThe platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms of exploitation and invisibility of this reproductive work, carried out mainly by migrant women from the Global south. This article deploys a feminist political economy approach to assess the new inequalities created by the intrusion of platform capitalism in the social reproduction sphere. Our study shows how the platform labour model fits perfectly in an informal and devalued care sector with a large labour supply composed of migrant women from the global South. Digital platforms take advantage of inequalities of gender, race, and immigration status to access a precarious workforce. The low reservation wage and lack of agency of migrant women, who are denied access to other sources of income and formal employment, act as key elements in the advancement of the mechanisms of exploitation and exclusion. Though care platforms facilitate access to work by migrant women, their working conditions are characteried by precarity, lack of access to social protection and unemployment benefits. Our results confirm that digital platforms have reinforced the ‘casualisation’ of labour markets, gendered segregation and subjugation in labour markets.Routledge20252025-01-1420222022-12-0720222022-12-07journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10433/22286reponame:RIO. Repositorio Institucional Olavideinstname:Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:rio.upo.es:10433/222862026-06-13T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers
title Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers
spellingShingle Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers
Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula
Platform economy
Migrant women
Intersectional inequalities
Care work
Feminist economics
title_short Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers
title_full Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers
title_fullStr Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers
title_full_unstemmed Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers
title_sort Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula
Agenjo-Calderón, Astrid
López Igual, Purificación
author Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula
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Agenjo-Calderón, Astrid
López Igual, Purificación
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López Igual, Purificación
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Platform economy
Migrant women
Intersectional inequalities
Care work
Feminist economics
topic Platform economy
Migrant women
Intersectional inequalities
Care work
Feminist economics
description The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective of our study is to unravel the new mechanisms of exploitation and invisibility of this reproductive work, carried out mainly by migrant women from the Global south. This article deploys a feminist political economy approach to assess the new inequalities created by the intrusion of platform capitalism in the social reproduction sphere. Our study shows how the platform labour model fits perfectly in an informal and devalued care sector with a large labour supply composed of migrant women from the global South. Digital platforms take advantage of inequalities of gender, race, and immigration status to access a precarious workforce. The low reservation wage and lack of agency of migrant women, who are denied access to other sources of income and formal employment, act as key elements in the advancement of the mechanisms of exploitation and exclusion. Though care platforms facilitate access to work by migrant women, their working conditions are characteried by precarity, lack of access to social protection and unemployment benefits. Our results confirm that digital platforms have reinforced the ‘casualisation’ of labour markets, gendered segregation and subjugation in labour markets.
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