Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

Webster, Natasha A.; Zhang, Qian

doi:10.1080/08038740.2020.1714725

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“…While food production has always been a gendered activity (Webster & Zhang, 2020 ), the market linkage has always been dominated by men. Kashyap's ( 1987 ) work on Indian street food vending also highlights that food is primarily sold by men, with women supporting their male partners in assembling the food or in cleaning at their vending carts.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Women's Work and Control Over Household Labormentioning

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Merging the public and private spheres of women's work: Narratives from women street food vendors during Covid‐19 crisis

Guha

Neti

Lobo

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Feminist economists have long questioned the dichotomy between the “private” versus “public” spheres of women's work and have argued for a more nuanced understanding of the marketable paid work and the unpaid work of household caregiving. This paper focuses on women street food vendors' (SFVs) experiences before and during Covid‐19 pandemic to understand how street food vending as a livelihood activity interacts with social dimensions like gender and division of labor. Through multiple in‐depth interviews with 23 women street vendors in Bengaluru, India, before and during the pandemic, we show that there is a blurring of the dichotomy between the work done in the private and public spaces before the pandemic, which is disrupted by Covid‐19 crisis. The first half of the paper explores the household labor dynamics in the context of paid and unpaid work of women and explains how the women SFVs, capitalizing on their existing skills of “ cooking ,” were able to gain agency and recognition for themselves within the households. The second half of the paper focuses on the narratives of the same women SFVs during the first wave of the Covid pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. We find that the Covid crisis brought back the dichotomy between private and public spheres, making it more pronounced, with women losing their control over the public sphere and their work being restricted only to the private sphere.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Women's Work and Control Over Household Labormentioning

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Merging the public and private spheres of women's work: Narratives from women street food vendors during Covid‐19 crisis

Guha

Neti

Lobo

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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“…In this view, gig economy is but a part of the broader notion of platform economy. A rich body of research on both platform and gig economy exists [15][16][17][18]. However, the COVID-19 pandemic, the quarantine, and the necessity of relying on remote modes of work, created a momentum to rethink the nature and the added value of both platform and gig economy, respectively.…”

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The Gig Economy: Current Issues, the Debate, and the New Avenues of Research

2021

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In the context of the debate on platform economy, on the one hand, and the gig economy, on the other, this paper delineates the conceptual boundaries of both concepts to query the gig economy research included in the Web of Science database. The initial search, cutoff date February 2020, targeting “gig economy” returned a sample of 378 papers dealing with the topic. The subsequent analysis, employing the science mapping method and relating software (SciMAT), allowed to query the body of research dealing with gig economy in detail. The value added by this paper is fourfold. First, the broad literature on gig economy is mapped and the nascent synergies relating both to research opportunities and economic implications are identified and highlighted. Second, the findings reveal that while research on gig economy proliferates, the distinction between “platform” and “gig” economy frequently remains blurred in the analysis. This paper elaborates on this issue. Third, it is highlighted that the discussion on gig economy is largely dispersed and a clearer research agenda is needed to streamline the discussion to improve its exploratory and explanatory potential. This paper suggests ways of navigating this issue. Fourth, by mapping the existing research on gig economy and highlighting its caveats, the way toward a comprehensive research agenda in the field is highlighted.

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“…Individuals who offer services in the collaborative economy through platforms might have then either wage employment and a wish to increase their disposable household income by occasionally selling through platforms (Delacroix et al. , 2019), or they represent professionals, who are already self-employed and use collaborative-economy platforms for their self-employment (Webster and Zhang, 2020; Parker et al. , 2017).…”

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Individual-contextual determinants of entrepreneurial service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy

Leick

Falk

Eklund

et al. 2022

IJEBR

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PurposeThis article examines the nature of service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy from the perspective of entrepreneurship theories. It departs from a knowledge gap about the individual and contextual determinants of service provision through digital platforms. By exploring these determinants for the service provision in two main sectors of the collaborative economy, transportation and accommodation, the study provides a first conceptual introduction of these activities and their nature for the existing entrepreneurship research.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is based upon Eurobarometer microdata (2018), covering 28 European countries with about 27,000 observations, and uses a seemingly unrelated Probit model.FindingsThe likelihood of service provision through platforms in the collaborative economy is highest for individuals aged 25–34 years but decreases continuously with age. Occupation, sex and population density of the place of residence are other relevant determinants. By contrast, the regulatory system and GDP per capita of the region are not relevant.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings illuminate the under-studied individual and contextual determinants related to individuals engaging with entrepreneurial activities in the collaborative economy. Future research should investigate the role of previous self-employment, skills and spatial context.Practical implicationsThe collaborative economy is still a marginal sector in Europe that is likely to grow bigger. Particularly the young, highly educated entrepreneurial persons located in urban regions may spur this expected growth. Supporting policy measures aimed at this social stratum might foster digital entrepreneurship and contribute to growth in the digital economy.Originality/valueBy exploring the individual and contextual determinants for the service provision in the two main sectors of the platform-based collaborative economy, transportation and accommodation, the study provides a first conceptual introduction of these activities and their nature into existing entrepreneurship research.

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Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

Cited by 41 publications

References 38 publications

Merging the public and private spheres of women's work: Narratives from women street food vendors during Covid‐19 crisis

Merging the public and private spheres of women's work: Narratives from women street food vendors during Covid‐19 crisis

The Gig Economy: Current Issues, the Debate, and the New Avenues of Research

Individual-contextual determinants of entrepreneurial service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy

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