Reimagining Work Security in Latin America's Platform Economy: Workers' Strategies Amid Urban Violence
本文通过访谈利马网约车司机，发现他们看重平台并非为了正式工作保障，而是为了减少人身风险、实现无现金交易和获得数据监控，从而在非正规经济和城市暴力中重新定义安全。
ABSTRACT This article analyzes how ride‐hailing drivers in Lima redefine security amidst high informality and urban violence. Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews and more than 35 informal conversations with drivers, alongside a systematic review of Latin American media coverage of the platform economy, it shows how drivers value platforms not for formal job security, but for mitigating physical risks, enabling cashless transactions, and providing data‐driven oversight of passengers and routes. By examining workers' spatial agency and their ‘reworking’ of platform technologies, this study reconceptualizes platform labour through the lens of urban security. The analysis reveals how workers use platforms to produce new arrangements of security and trust in precarious urban environments, enriching our understanding of platform labour in the Global South.