Radha
Radha works as an activist at Stree Jagruti Samiti and Domestic Workers Rights Union, where she supports young domestic workers with the issues they face at work.
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The conversations on Indian gig economy miss the domestic work industry
While the move to online platforms for domestic work in India has given a sense of security and identity in some cases to the workers, the commodification of care under online platforms has erased the kind of quasi-familial support and connection, the absence of which was truly felt by workers during the pandemic.
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Domestic work in the platform economy: reflections on conducting interviews on sensitive issues
As part of the Feminist Internet Research Network, we are including a series of short pieces on reflections by researchers on the ground, and in this piece a researcher talks about the experience of doing research with workers, unions and companies and of trying to determine the extent of sexual harassment or caste prejudice in the platform economy around domestic labour
