Before the Gig Economy Tracing the Transformations in Delhis Taxi Industry
- Title
- Before the Gig Economy Tracing the Transformations in Delhis Taxi Industry
- Creator
- Kumar M.
- Description
- Studying Delhis radio taxi industry, this paper traces the transitional process of traditional taxi services in the capital to radio taxi services and finally to the current app-based taxi aggregators. The radio taxi companies ruptured old kinship ties and informal relations with a combination of technology, surveillance, and financea process app-based taxi aggregators have further refined. There is also an account of the labour struggles in the industry that preceded the advent of the platform economy. 2022 Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved.
- Source
- Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-57, No. 12, pp. 54-60.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Coverage
- Kumar M., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 129976
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Kumar M., “Before the Gig Economy Tracing the Transformations in Delhis Taxi Industry,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/15119.