ABSTRACT
From the 1990s to the 2020s, the global economy has transformed through the imposition of neoliberalized capitalism and the withdrawal of the state from regulation and social welfare. Globally, most employment is in the informal sector, intensified by economic liberalization. The degradation of labour has also extended into health, education, agriculture, and domestic service industries. Employment throughout most of the Global South always had been dominated by informal jobs and precarious labour, with vestiges of stable employment in the state-owned and public sector. But these jobs also have been replaced by informal work arrangements as well as platform labour as global production and supply chains have emerged as the norm. In the 2020s, global supply chains are increasingly reliant on the introduction of platform and digital technology, indispensable to the logistics revolution and neoliberal capitalism. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
