Publication: Hidden platform subsidies: the role of social networks in concealing (too) low income on care work platforms
Hidden platform subsidies: the role of social networks in concealing (too) low income on care work platforms
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Ettarfi, K., & Schwiter, K. (2025). Hidden platform subsidies: the role of social networks in concealing (too) low income on care work platforms. Geographica Helvetica, 80, 305–314. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-305-2025
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As digital labour mediation platforms became prominent in the late 2010s, they were soon associated with deteriorating labour conditions, especially for ride hailing, delivery and crowd work. Yet studies are more ambivalent about their effects on care work, i.e. domestic work and home care for children and seniors. As care work was already informal and highly precarious before, digital platforms held the promise of (partially) formalizing it. Contributing to this debate, we ask how workers make a living from platformized care work. We
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Ettarfi, K., & Schwiter, K. (2025). Hidden platform subsidies: the role of social networks in concealing (too) low income on care work platforms. Geographica Helvetica, 80, 305–314. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-305-2025
