Lutfun Nahar Lata

The rise of the 'gig', 'sharing' or 'platform' economy has recently gained increasing scholarly attention due to the large-scale entry of labour into platform-based gig activities. Platform-mediated gig work has infiltrated many economic sectors, provoking scholarly inquiries about the question of whether digital casual labour is further exacerbating precarity; whether platforms are producing new modes of regulation, as well as labour movements and resistance to regulation. Within this context, this entry discusses the notions of precarity and agency as the starting point to pursue the two lines of inquiry: how do the gig activities on e-platforms deepen gig workers' precarity and vulnerability due to algorithmic control and lack of regulation, and how do the workers apply their agency to resist the algorithmic management?