This paper explores the dominant framing of the future of work which inadequately accounts for gendered labour markets and workplaces as well as highly informalized forms of employment. Many emerging new forms of work are related to the platform economy, such as app-mediated work and crowdworking websites. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is corporate-driven, motivated by the expectation that technology will lead to a reduction in workforce and hence production cost by 2022. The potential of the 4IR to ensure improved standards of living, reduce decent work deficits, narrow inequality and, more importantly for our purposes, ensure a gender-equal society will be lost unless concerted efforts are deployed to direct its goals
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