Ira Anjali Anwar
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This forum focuses on the conditions and futures of the labor underpinning technology production and maintenance. We welcome standalone articles as well as interviews and conversations about all tech labor within the global supply chain of digital technologies. --- Seyram Avle and Sarah Fox, Editors
- Tandem Research and The Cloudburst Group. Gig work on digital platforms: Platform-based domestic work -- Sweepsouth. USAID; https://www.tandemresearch.org/assets/SweepSouth-Case-Study-Final-2020-05-15.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Anwar, I.A., Pal, J., and Hui, J. Watched, but moving: Platformization of beauty work and its gendered mechanisms of control. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW3 (Dec. 2020), Article 250 Google ScholarDigital Library
- Most migrant workers work to support families back home, on top of their own living expenses. Some salons even provide lodging and food, making the women entirely dependent on them.Google Scholar
- The northeastern states are geographically and culturally removed from the rest of India and the population is predominantly made up of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes, which are protected classes under the Constitution of India. Service workers from northeastern states often face extensive and gendered forms of racial stereotyping and discrimination in mainland India, further exacerbated by language barriers. Interstate dynamics also shape discriminatory behaviors against migrant workers, for example, disputes between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have created long-lasting tensions between migrant workers and "native" dwellers.Google Scholar
- Tandem Research and the Cloudburst Group. Gig work on digital platforms: Information-sharing platforms -- Golden Dreams. USAID; https://tandemresearch.org/assets/Golden-Dreams-Final-2020-05-15.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Soden, R., Ribes, D., Avle, S., and Sutherland, W. Time for historicism in CSCW: An invitation. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2 (Oct. 2021), Article 459 Google ScholarDigital Library
- But only insofar as industry and the state now has formal data on the workforce, not in terms of employment benefits.Google Scholar
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- Platform work and the erosion of community networks in the global south
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