We are witnessing the emergence of a ‘planetary labour market' for digital work. Building on a five-year study of digital work in some of the world's economic margins, we show a planetary labour market does not do away with geography, it rather exists to take advantage of it. Digital...

Global production networks (GPN) has become a key framework in conceptualising linkages, power and structure in globalised production. However, this framework has been less successful in integrating the influence of digital information and ICTs in production, and this problematic in a world...

Information-technologies are essential for global capitalism to function at speed across scale, space and complexity. The importance of software and algorithms in the governance of these systems is reflected in the attention of scholars to the ways digital code and materiality (re)combine to...

This article evaluates the job quality of work in the remote gig economy. Such work consists of the remote provision of a wide variety of digital services mediated by online labour platforms. Focusing on workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the article draws on semi-structured...

Information and communication technologies shape economic spaces, transactions, and relationships, and are often promoted as an essential development strategy in both rich and poor countries. But development strategies often rest on very particular understandings of the ways in which ICTs...

In discussions about the locations that make up the key productive nodes of the digital economy, Africa workers rarely gets a mention. The main aim of this briefing is to make visible the invisible and bring light to the role African workers are playing in developing key emergent and everyday...