Abstract
Digital labour platforms are the newest technological wave that is reshaping and reconfiguring the economic and labour landscape. Digital platforms, often known as the gig economy, are increasingly adopting app-based models to connect consumers with workers to complete their on-demand tasks. Existing research on the gig economy and its regulation has mostly been conducted in the Global North, whereas little is known about the emergence of the gig economy in the Global South. In particular, there is a gap in the literature on how the gig economy is regulated in the Global South and what the gig workers’ working conditions and resistance opportunities are. In this context, this chapter explores the nature of gig work and gig workers associations in Bangladesh using the case of ridesharing drivers in Bangladesh as well as the implications of the digital labour platforms for labour regulation in Bangladesh and the potential applicability of existing laws and regulations to platform work.