Tufts, StevenCampo, Maya Selina2024-11-072024-11-072024-06-112024-11-07https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42408This 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.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.GeographyGender studiesLabor relationsElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2024-11-07MasculinityMasculinitiesRideshare workGig workPlatform workSocial reproductionLabour geographyOrganizingUnionsPlatform capitalismFeminist political economy