RT Journal Article
T1 A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work
A1 Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula
A1 Agenjo-Calderón, Astrid
A1 López Igual, Purificación
K1 Platform economy
K1 Platformwork
K1 Feminist politicaleconomy
K1 Socialreproduction
K1 Intersectionalinequalities
AB Digital platforms are becoming an important factor in the process ofreconfiguration and commodification of social reproduction during theneoliberal phase of capitalism. Developing a theoretical frameworkmerging social reproduction theory and migrant labour regimes, thisarticle argues that the introduction of digital platforms in the caresector is facilitating the expansion of precarised commodification ofreproductive activities in a context of social care crisis. Through amixed-method analysis, combining desk-based research with in-depthinterviews of digital care platform work in Spain, the study examinesthe migrant labour regime of digital care platforms and how they takeadvantage of the international division of labour and global care chainsto further exploit a highly precarious, informalised, feminised andracialised workforce. Our findings reveal that platforms use technologyto rapidly access a reserve labour army, thus extracting more surplusvalue by restricting access to information, controlling the intermediationprocess and further fragmenting the workforce in reproductive activities.
PB Routledge
YR 2024
FD 2024-02-13
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22143
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22143
LA en
NO Paula Rodríguez-Modroño, Astrid Agenjo-Calderón & Purificación López- Igual (2024) A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work, New Political Economy, 29:4, 616-627, DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2024.2317703
NO FECYT -- EL FUTURO DEL TRABAJO DESDE UNA OPTICA DE GENERO: LAS MUJERES E...
NO Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History, Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Spain
DS RIO
RD May 13, 2026