ABSTRACT
We are witnessing the emergence of a “planetary labor market” for digital work. Building on a five-year study of digital gig work in some of the world’s economic margins, we show a planetary labor market does not do away with geography, it rather exists to take advantage of it. Digital technologies have been deployed in order to bring into being a labor market that can operate at a planetary scale, and has particular affordances and limitations that rarely bolster both the structural and associational power of workers.
