The gig economy is designed to fragment labour, absorb disruption and sustain extraction

Tewari, Avantika (2026) The gig economy is designed to fragment labour, absorb disruption and sustain extraction. The Indian Express. pp. 1-6.

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When Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal publicly declared — claims disputed by unions — that the recent gig workers’ strike had “failed,” the statement was meant to project normalcy. Orders were delivered, apps stayed online, and capital circulated uninterrupted. But what this moment really affirmed was not the resilience of service delivery but the success of platform capitalism in organising labour so completely that even collective resistance struggles to appear as resistance at all. The uninterrupted flow of orders was presented as evidence of fairness, when it is better understood as proof of how thoroughly disruption has been engineered out of the system.

Item Type: Article in Newspapers and Magazine
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Human Rights
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Law and Legal Studies
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Mr. Luckey Pathan
Date Deposited: 14 Jan 2026 05:07
Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026 05:07
Official URL: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/...
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/10659

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