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A plea for public policy intervention, alongside private action is attempted to design social protection systems to meet the changing contexts and demands of new forms of flexi-work; especially of women workers by revisiting new labour codes in the Global South with a focus on emerging India.
We will critique the provisions for the Gig & Platform Workers introduced in the Code on Social Security 2020 in India. Other aspects that need to address several issues at stake like vulnerability, provision of social security, and decent work, especially of women workers will be captured through our fieldwork and analysis. The general discussions will revolve around the growth and prospects of the gig economy, gig jobs, and emerging gig workers; especially women.
In fine, the International Labour Organisation’s Kenya Mission of 1972 that defined the informal sector by Keith Hart is still persistent in different avatars and is unlikely to fade away in the future as shown by our study in the metropolis of Mumbai.