Puru DubeyAIR 86 · CSE 2025 · 182 wordsTheir whole copy
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Platform economy refers to an economy mediated by digital platforms connecting consumers and services.
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PLATFORM ECONOMY & EMPOWERMENT OF INFORMAL WOMAN LABOUR
(1) Access to employment: Platform economy allows women to break the confines of domesticity & lack of social security. Ex: Cloud kitchens allow women such opportunity.
(2) Provides equal wage: with platform economy, women gain higher [Negotiating power] than erstwhile traditional employment.
(3) Safety & security: Platform economy enables women to work from the confines of home increasing employment safety for women.
Yet, the [empowerment] remains an unaccomplished project.
(1) [Primitive accumulation of labour] : Platform economy enables exploitation by accessing women's labour at low cost. [Post-globalisation], firms have relied on this strategy to extract from labour.
(2) [Dual burden] : Since women in platform economy mainly operate from home, it intensifies their unpaid labour.
(3) [Low social security & Alienation] :
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women in this sector are alienated as there is no control on the pace of work and limit to the [working day].
While platform economy provides the dream of empowerment, it ends up perpetuating the same hierarchies.