Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform-Based Food Delivery - Ruth Milkman, Luke Elliott-Negri, Kathleen Griesbach, Adam Reich, 2021

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• the gig economy interpret their work experience.

• the gender–class

• intersectional lens to analyze the work ex

• . Most were attracted to this work because it offered them greater autonomy than they had in other jobs, enabling them to control their work schedules so as not to interfere with their caregiving commitments.

• feminist theorist Temma Kaplan (1982) in arguing that, among our respondents, class consciousness is embedded in what Kaplan called “female consciousness,” which she identified (in a different historical context) as specific to working-class women:

• class consciousness can coexist with, and more importantly, can be expressed through female consciousness.

• r, some researchers have documented race discrimination on platforms featuring photographs of gig workers, l

• ve noted that because such work requires basic technological skills and access to smartphones, the most disadvantaged populations are often excluded outright