The Emerging Nature of Work in Platform Economy Companies in Bengaluru, India: The Case of Uber and Ola Cab Drivers
The Emerging Nature of Work in Platform Economy Companies in Bengaluru, India: The Case of Uber and Ola Cab Drivers
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印度班加罗尔平台经济公司工作的新兴性质：Uber 和 Ola 出租车司机的案例
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2016
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Jyothi Koduganti
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A. Surie;Jyothi Koduganti
本文从社会学的角度考察了印度班加罗尔平台经济司机的工作经历、安全与风险感知。本文通过对45名在Uber或Ola出租车平台上驾驶的平台经济司机进行深入的定性访谈，通过丰富的民族志细节呈现了这些经历和看法。司机的叙述被用来揭示印度城市非正规经济就业经历的引人注目的变化。这些变化被用来研究印度城市非正规经济中存在的生活经历的多样性，并将印度平台经济驱动因素与全球同行区分开来。时间性的概念工具被用来解读司机对风险、安全及其管理的看法。本文的中心发现是，平台经济公司给了司机一个稳定的中期积累财富的时间，这反过来又使他们能够通过在工作中进行大量投资来稳定和做出短期决策，并在短期内更有信心承担灵活工作条件的风险。
This paper investigates the work experiences, perceptions of security and risk of platform economy drivers in Bengaluru, India from a sociological perspective. The article presents these experiences and perceptions through rich ethnographic detail from in-depth, qualitative interviews with forty-five platform economy drivers driving on Uber or Ola cabs platforms. Drivers’ narratives are used to bring out compelling shifts in informal economy employment experiences in Indian cities. These shifts are used to examine the diversity of lived experiences present in the Indian urban informal economy and to distinguish Indian platform economy drivers from their global counterparts. The conceptual tool of temporality is employed in reading through drivers’ perceptions of risk, security and their management of these. The central finding of this article is that platform economy companies have given drivers a stable, mid-term period of time to accumulate wealth, which in turn has allowed them to stabilize and take short-term decisions by making large investments in their work, and to bear the risks of flexible working conditions in the short-term with more confidence.