Masculinity and Gig Work: A Case Study of Rideshare Workers in Toronto

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dc.contributor.advisorTufts, Steven
dc.contributor.authorCampo, Maya Selina
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T11:03:05Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T11:03:05Z
dc.date.copyright2024-06-11
dc.date.issued2024-11-07
dc.date.updated2024-11-07T11:03:04Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines shifting masculinities and platform labour, following eleven semi-structured interviews conducted with male Toronto-based Uber and Lyft rideshare workers with dependents (children). Women have commonly done non-standard work, hence the proliferation of non-standard work being contextualized as the ‘feminization of work’ (Zahn, 2019). In contrast, rideshare work is a non-standard form of gig work done predominantly by men, rendering it a relevant form of platform work to examine with its complicated relationship to the historical context of gender and nonstandard work. This thesis argues for a need to organize the worker as a whole, examining how workers’ unpaid social reproductive labour and balancing of rideshare work, and often another form of paid work, impacts the viability of classic organizing methods. I argue that these issues of convoluted boundaries between paid and unpaid work must be incorporated into the potential organizing demands of a rideshare workers’ union and identify areas for further research on organizing rideshare workers accounting for shifting masculinities.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42408
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectLabor relations
dc.subject.keywordsMasculinity
dc.subject.keywordsMasculinities
dc.subject.keywordsRideshare work
dc.subject.keywordsGig work
dc.subject.keywordsPlatform work
dc.subject.keywordsSocial reproduction
dc.subject.keywordsLabour geography
dc.subject.keywordsOrganizing
dc.subject.keywordsUnions
dc.subject.keywordsPlatform capitalism
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist political economy
dc.titleMasculinity and Gig Work: A Case Study of Rideshare Workers in Toronto
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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