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To gig workers, Delhi Budget offers spaces to rest and the promise of a welfare board
March 24, 2026 6:00 pm
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta also announced that the government will form an Auto-Taxi Driver Welfare Board to look after the provisions and security of auto rickshaw and taxi drivers in the capital.
What India’s AVGC push reveals about jobs, gig work, and the future of creative labour
February 26, 2026 11:48 am
As employment projections touch two million by 2030, policymakers must confront the blurred line between formal studio work and fragmented freelance careers
Rs 20 deliveries, 15-hour days: The human cost of Delhi's gig work
February 09, 2026 2:20 pm
For many of India’s 1.2 cr platform workers, gig work offers flexibility, but no security. As more and more Indians enter the system, frictions are increasing, and demands for better regulation are growing louder.
The Indian gig economy is running on forced labour
January 16, 2026 6:15 pm
As India debates the future of work, the central question is not whether gig platforms are efficient, scalable, or profitable. It is whether technological innovation can be allowed to normalise constitutional violations
Two gig workers write: This is why those who Deepinder Goyal calls 'miscreants' go on strike
January 09, 2026 4:09 pm
Discontent also comes from the absolute lack of any managerial care towards riders. We bring our own vehicles and pay for their costs
Exploitation is built into gig work
January 09, 2026 7:10 am
The response to the strike showed that the urban middle class, which is the biggest beneficiary of their services, is unlikely to come out in support.
The gig economy is designed to fragment labour, absorb disruption and sustain extraction
January 05, 2026 1:15 pm
What platforms offer is not emancipatory visibility but a regime of operational visibility oriented entirely toward capital. Labour is tracked, timed, rated, and priced with unprecedented precision while remaining politically invisible and structurally voiceless
Gig workers’ strike raises a question: What’s the cost of convenience?
January 02, 2026 4:05 pm
When we put grocery items on par with an emergency service that we would expect to reach our doorstep quickly, we end up treating our convenience as an inalienable need
Rethinking speed: ‘10-Minute Delivery’ is more than a labour law problem
January 02, 2026 11:42 am
Labour regulation may mitigate harm in the short run, but it does not interrogate whether speed itself has become an illegitimate competitive variable
Nationwide gig workers’ strike sends a strong message to platform capitalists
December 31, 2025 5:01 pm
The insta-delivery model has made delivery workers’ livelihoods even more insecure. There is a dire need to focus on ensuring fair wages, transparent payment systems and reasonable working conditions
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