Seminar #2: Moving as Labour
Mon 15 Dec
|Virtual Event
This webinar 'Moving as Labour' features a conversation between two interdisciplinary scholars working on mobile labourers and platform workers: Dr. Jamie Woodcock (King’s College London) and Vageesh Vishnoi (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi).
Time & Location
15 Dec 2025, 15:00 – 16:30
Virtual Event
About the event
It is our pleasure to invite you to the second seminar of our series 'Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement' supported by the Leverhulme Trust-funded Social Life of Authoritarian Legality project at SOAS University of London.
This session titled 'Moving as Labour' features a conversation between two interdisciplinary scholars working on mobile labourers and platform workers: Dr. Jamie Woodcock (King’s College London) and Vageesh Vishnoi (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi).
Vageesh will speak about mobility and rest in the context of gig work by examining three sites of value creation within the labour process of food delivery platforms in India - the platforms' application, customer locations and the roads, and finally the hotspot areas (waiting areas). Jamie will present comparisons between the experience of migrant labour mobility and militancy of Brazilian workers engaged in food delivery platform work and the games industry in Britain