Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Location-based digital platforms promise flexibility, autonomy, and supplemental income, but neo-liberal hustle culture shifts risks onto workers, exposing women to heightened sexist and sexual violence. By promoting freedom and entrepreneurship, these platforms perpetuate techno-masculinist notions of flexibility, ignoring women’s needs. Through narrative analysis of 10 female platform workers in India’s ridesharing and food delivery sectors, this study reveals how masculine ideas of flexibility and risk deepen the precarity of already precarious work..
Source: Swiss Journal of Sociology
Author: Aashika Ravi
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409441518