The rise of the “gig economy” has enabled Internet users to find new work previously unavailable to them. For this purpose, “online labor platforms” have been set up, which constitute a global remote gig economy and enable clients to access world-wide labor power. This chapter discusses...

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...

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...

Across the globe, daily economic, social, and political activities increasingly revolve around the use of content on the Internet. This content influences our understandings of, and interactions with, our social environment. Yet it is remarkable how little we know about the broader contexts in...