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Aditya Ray, PhD

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Illustrating Precarity on Digital Platforms in the Wake of the Pandemic

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This collaborative project seeks to illustrate digital platform workers' experiences during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The representative illustrations here are based on Indian app-based drivers' own retelling of their lived experiences rendered in collaboration with Anusha Menon, who is a graphic illustrator based in Pune. These illustrations will be collated in the form of a Zine and made available alongisde academic publications from the project. Please click on any image below and cycle through the gallery to view them in full size.

Statement of Support: The project has been supported at different stages by funding from the Economic and Social Research CouncilĀ  (ESRC) - UKRI,Ā  The Open University, Queen Mary University of London. Rights to using and sharing of this content belong to Dr Aditya Ray. Please get in touch if you would like to adapt this content in any form.Ā 
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Unwaged voluntary support and mutual aid among gig workers
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Algorithmic Exclusion: Locked out in the Locked Down
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Without a roof: Sleeping in the car during the pandemic
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Rootedness and Coping: Socio-spatial networks of platform drivers
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Dealing with injuries and accidents: A story in four parts
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Rural-Urban mobility - Cities as a site of inclusion, risk and exclusion for gig workers
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Precarity and stressors: Dealing with the malik, debt, inflation, family and the virus
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'Malik' (Car-owner) mediating drivers' work and earnings
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Mind map of sources of suport and solidarity for gig workers
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To the village and back: Rural-urban migration underlying the gig economy