Underpaid or Uberpaid: Call for Papers for Critical Sociology
Deadline for Abstracts
Friday, 15 December 2023 via email to editors
Deadline final Article
If you are invited to submit your full article it will be due on Sunday, 31 March 2024
Journal Symposium
Language
English
Contact of Editors
Luisa De Vita, luisa.devita@uniroma1.it
Alessio Bertolini, alessio.bertolini@oii.ox.ac.uk
Submission via email
This Symposium is meant to be highly interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary and also encourages the adoption of an intersectional perspective, both to better understand how overlapping identities, roles, and experiences shape different possibilities to obtain better working conditions and, second, to analyse the situated nature of inequalities to highlight how different contexts shape and influence access to resources.
Different types of manuscripts are welcome: theoretical, methodological, empirical, qualitative and quantitative – from a micro, meso or macro approache as well as country-specific research also in comparative perspectives.
The call aims to explore the working conditions of care and domestic workers in the platform economy by highlighting:
- the intersections of gender, ethnicity, age, and professionalism to highlight in different contexts new mechanisms of empowerment or disempowerment
- analyse the extent to which, or how, care platforms direct and control worker tasks, employment conditions and social relations of workers
- how different business models affect the work process and working conditions;
- the relationship between domestic work and welfare and migration regimes;
- the regulatory and policy challenges surrounding the platformisation of platform work
- understand how platform work offers certain opportunities and challenges to migrants with a variety of backgrounds and skill levels
- analyse whether and how ethnicity affects the platform-side choice of domestic and care workers and how ethnic background affects working conditions
- the intersection between platform work and informal/undeclared work
- the role of industrial relations in addressing the huge fragmentations of care and domestic work
