Ubering In India- Evaluation of Gig-Economies in Developing Countries

Ethnographic Study of Uber-wallahs and driving for ‘Uber Long term ethnographic study of the impacts of gig economy in developing countries reveal specific and unique interplay of technologies and socio-cultural forces.
Our main arguments are: If a vast segment of the informal employment sector in a country resembles gig work, can companies like Uber bring organizational ability and wage regularity to employment?
Uber drivers in India are witnessing a slow emergence of everyday work formalization predominantly through Despite Uber’s economic model being challenged on several labor fronts in scholarship from the global North, we argue everyday interactions with the Uber platform are ushering organized work practices and improved financial stability for drivers who formerly hail from the informal employment sector in India.