– Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Political Economy | Labour Geography | Technology | Social Reproduction
I am a PhD researcher at King’s College London funded with ESRC grant (through LISS-DTP), working on the political economy of domestic work, platformisation, and social reproduction in urban India. My research examines how digital platforms reorganise labour, reshape everyday life, and extend market relations to intimate and reproductive domains.
Alongside my academic work, I am engaged in labour activism in India, collaborating with workers’ organisations and unions to confront precarity and informality in the platform economy. These engagements inform my research and seek to situate contemporary transformations of work within broader questions of inequality, class, and social reproduction.
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Your Work, Your Rights: A Toolkit for Platform Domestic Workers
Domestic work delivered through digital platforms is expanding rapidly across Indian cities. Yet many workers, especially women, often begin platform work without full clarity about wage deductions, rating systems, insurance coverage, or ID deactivation processes.
Over the past year, through field research and extended conversations with platform-based domestic workers, I repeatedly heard the same concern: critical information becomes clear only after work has already started.
In response, I’ve put together a simple awareness toolkit containing key questions workers may wish to ask before joining a platform. The aim is not to target any specific company, but to encourage transparency, informed decision-making, and better bargaining at the point of entry.
This document is based on field research and worker conversations. It is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or imply endorsement of any particular platform.
I hope it may be useful not only for workers, but also for unions, collectives, NGOs, researchers, and policymakers working on digital labour and domestic work.
The toolkit is free to use. Please feel free to translate, adapt, expand, or co-brand it for organisational use. I’m happy to collaborate.
Domestic work is skilled work. Transparency is respect.
If you have suggestions to improve or further sensitise the language, I would welcome your feedback.
Download it here: https://tinyurl.com/2745suvk
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