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26 February 2021 - SCIS
Today we speak to Ruth Castel-Branco, Research Manager – Technology and the Future of Work(ers) Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS).
This is an ongoing series where we introduce some key researchers and academics getting to understand their work, their developing research interests as well as what keeps them engaged.
Explain the nature of your work and/or how it relates to inequality.
I manage the research project on Technology and the Future of Work(ers), which explores how digital innovation is reshaping the world of work and inequality. After all, work is the primary source of sustenance across the world. The project conceives of work as productive and reproductive, formal and informal, paid and unpaid. To capture the diversity of experience within the global South, we focus on five countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Mozambique and South Africa. Importantly, we conceive of digitalisation as a contested process and are thus especi
Explain the nature of your work and/or how it relates to inequality.
I am currently working as a researcher on the Future of Work Project alongside Prof Eddie Webster, Ruth Castel-Branco, Dr Alex Mashilo and Sandiswa Mapukata. The main purpose of the project is to look at the impact of the gig economy on workers in the global South. In particular, I look at employees of the Tech Giants and the everyday lived experiences of food courier/ drivers and Sweep South workers in Johannesburg. This is done by conducting in-depth interviews with the workers, where possible at their place of work. It is through their daily experiences of insecurity, unfair and unsafe working conditions that the deepening and growing inequality is highlighted as these individuals work long hours for low wages.