Precarious Workers in the Gig Economy

This book focuses on gig work and organising among gig workers in the Indonesian online transport service, situated within the context of widespread precaritisation and digitalisation in today's world of work. It addresses the challenges experienced by precarious gig workers in Indonesia in articulating their struggles through the discourse of precarity. Such challenges are related to the reproduction of neoliberal-derived entrepreneurial aspirations amidst the historical relative absence of stable work patterns (previously associated with more advanced economies), and the historically rooted marginalisation of broad-based labour movements as a social force. Though showcasing the specific experiences of Indonesian workers, the analysis in this book is supplemented by broad comparative insights. It offers empirically based analysis for those interested in new forms of collective organisations and politics that emerge among workers under the imperatives of neoliberalism in Indonesia, and by extension Southeast Asia.

Provides a deep investigation into precarious gig work and organising among gig workers in the online transport service in Indonesia Uses the broad comparative insights to illuminate Indonesia as a specific case study Contributes to debate about precarious work globally by raises issues for society and politics, beyond the workplace

Autorentext

Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs at the Asia Research Centre, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Her research is centred on increasing precarity in work and in life under neoliberal pressures and its link to social and political developments in contemporary Indonesia.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Work, Workers' Subjectivity and Workplace Struggles Under Precarity: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations.- Chapter 3: The Emergence of a New Precarity: The Indonesian Trajectory.- Chapter 4: Neoliberalism at Work in the Indonesian Gig Economy.- Chapter 5: Resistance to Managerial Control Amid Consent to the New Precarity.- Chapter 6: Workers Solidarity in an Age of Precarity.- Chapter 7: Precarious Gig Workers' Politics: Challenging the Expansion of Precarity in the Gig Economy.