Moving as Labour
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- Online via zoom
About this event
This webinar 'Moving as Labour' features a conversation between two interdisciplinary scholars working on mobile labourers and platform workers: Dr. Jamie Woodcock (King’s College London) and Vageesh Vishnoi (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi).
Vageesh will speak about mobility and rest in the context of gig work by examining three sites of value creation within the labour process of food delivery platforms in India - the platforms' application, customer locations and the roads, and finally the hotspot areas (waiting areas). Jamie will present comparisons between the experience of migrant labour mobility and militancy of Brazilian workers engaged in food delivery platform work and the games industry in Britain.
About the Speaker
Dr Jamie Woodcock is a senior lecturer in digital economy at King’s College London. He is the author of books including: Troublemaking (Verso, 2023; Employment (Routledge, 2023); The Fight Against Platform Capitalism (University of Westminster Press, 2021); The Gig Economy (Polity, 2019); Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket, 2019); Working the Phones (Pluto, 2017)
Vageesh Vishnoi is a PhD research scholar from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research explores the spatiotemporal aspects of the gig economy using labour process analysis as a theoretical framework.
The seminar is part of our series 'Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement' supported by the Leverhulme Trust-funded Social Life of Authoritarian Legality project at SOAS University of London.
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