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APORDE PUBLIC SEMINAR: Gender, Work And Digitalisation: The Case Of E-Hailing Drivers In Nairobi

African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) As member states of the International Labour Organization begin negotiations on minimum labour standards for the platform economy, the question of how to extend labour protections to platform workers, without undermining their individual and collective power, has emerged as a core question. Drawing on the case of e-hailing workers in Kenya, this seminar explores the contradictions of making workers legible for regulation and the challenges of extending labour protections to workers who embody contradictory class locations. Ultimately, we argue, “worker” is a gendered political category rather than a fixed technical classification. Topic: Gender, Work and Digitalisation: The Case of e-hailing Drivers in Nairobi Chair: Prof. Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji, University of Massachusetts, Amherst About the Speakers: Siviwe Mhlana Siviwe Mhlana is a Researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand. Her work focuses on informality, tax justice, social reproduction and gender. She serves on the board of the Institute for Economic Justice and is a research associate in the Department of Economics and Economic History at Rhodes University. She holds an MA in Social Policy and Labour Studies from Rhodes University and is currently completing her PhD at SOAS University of London. Ruth Castel-Branco Ruth Castel-Branco is a Senior Lecturer at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand. Her research is focused on the casualization of labour, worker organizing and the redistributive role of the state. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand.