Inequalities Journal of Critical Inequality Studies

open access | peer reviewed

Aims & Scope

The Journal Inequalities centers around the examination of the big social issue of inequalities, integrated within a global vision of their social production and enriched through the comparison of specific situations across the world, at national and regional level. More specifically, Inequalities focuses on the multiple forms and dimensions of inequalities (economic, labour, class, educational, health, territorial, housing, legal, gender, racial, generational, etc.), the “new” inequalities (environmental, environmental health, climate, as well as those linked to robotization and digitalisation), and the causes, transformations and social consequences of inequalities. Inequalities is mainly placed within the field of sociology, but is open to and interested in contributions from across the social and human sciences, given that inequalities cannot be subject to any form of reductionism. The reference language of the Journal is English, however it is possible to submit articles and have them published in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Inequalities has two sections: “thematic dossier” and “free articles”. The publication of the issues is annually. Special issues are also considered. All articles are subjected to a double blind peer review process prescribed by ECF policy through the ECF platform.

La Revue Inequalities met au centre de son activité l’examen de la grande question sociale des inégalités, intégré par une vision globale de leur processus de production sociale et enrichi par la comparaison des situations spécifiques existant dans les différentes zones du monde au niveau régional et national. L’objectif spécifique de Inequalities est de prêter attention aux multiples formes et dimensions des inégalités (économiques, de travail, d’éducation, territoriales, raciales, de logement, juridiques, générationnelles, de genre, de santé, etc.), les « nouvelles » inégalités (environnementales, climatiques, de santé environnementale, ainsi que celles liées aux processus d’informatisation, de robotisation et de numérisation), les causes, les transformations et les conséquences sociales des inégalités. La Revue se réfère principalement au domaine de la sociologie, mais elle est ouverte et attentive aux contributions de toutes les sciences sociales et humaines - les inégalités étant un phénomène social qui ne tolère aucune forme de réductionnisme. La langue de référence de la Revue est l’anglais, mais les articles peuvent être soumis et publiés en espagnol, français, italien et portugais. La Revue comprend deux sections : 1) « dossier thématique » ; 2) « articles libres ». Des numéros spéciaux sont possibles. La publication des dossiers se fait selon une périodicité annuelle. Les articles sont soumis au processus d’évaluation par les pairs (en double aveugle) selon la politique de Edizioni Ca’ Foscari par le biais de la plateforme ECF.

La Revista Inequalities pone en el centro de su actividad el examen de la gran cuestión social de las desigualdades, integrado por una visión global del proceso de su producción social y enriquecido por la comparación de las situaciones específicas existentes en las diversas áreas del e mundo a nivel regional y nacional. El objetivo específico de Inequalities es prestar atención a las múltiples formas y dimensiones de las desigualdades (económicas, laborales, educativas, territoriales, raciales, de vivienda, jurídicas, generacionales, de género, de salud, etc.); las “nuevas” desigualdades (medioambientales, climáticas, de salud ambiental, así como las vinculadas a los procesos de informatización, robotización y digitalización), las causas, transformaciones y consecuencias sociales de las desigualdades. La Revista se refiere principalmente al campo de la sociología, pero está abierta y atenta a las contribuciones de todas las ciencias sociales y humanas - siendo, el de las desigualdades, un fenómeno social que no tolera ninguna forma de reduccionismo. El idioma de referencia de la Revista es el inglés; de todas formas, pueden presentarse y publicarse artículos en español, francés, italiano y portugués. La Revista tiene dos secciones: 1) “dossier temático”; 2) “artículos libres”. Son posibles números especiales. La periodicidad de publicación de los números es anual. Los artículos se someten al proceso de revisión por pares (doble ciego) de acuerdo con la política de la Edizioni Ca’ Foscari mediante la plataforma ECF.

A Revista Inequalities coloca no centro de sua atividade o exame da grande questão social das desigualdades, integrada por uma visão global do seus processo de produção social e enriquecida pela comparação das situações específicas existentes nas diversas áreas do mundo, em nível regional e nacional. O objetivo específico de Inequalities é prestar atenção as múltiplas formas e dimensões das desigualdades (econômicas, trabalhistas, educacionais, territoriais, raciais, habitacionais, legais, geracionais, de gênero, de saúde, etc.), as “novas” desigualdades (ambientais, de saúde ambiental, climáticas, bem como aquelas ligadas aos processos de informatização, robotização e digitalização), as causas, transformações e consequências sociais das desigualdades. A Revista refere-se principalmente ao campo da sociologia, mas é aberta e atenta às contribuições de todas as ciências sociais e humanas - sendo, o das desigualdades, um fenômeno social que não tolera qualquer forma de reducionismo. O idioma de referência da Revista é o inglês, porém os artigos podem ser submetidos e publicados em espanhol, francês, italiano, português. A Revista tem dois seções: 1) “dossiê temático”; 2) “artigos livres”. Edições especiais são possíveis. Atualmente, há uma periodicidade anual de publicação das edições. Os artigos são submetidos ao processo de revisão por pares (duplo-cego) exigido pela política do ECF através do uso da plataforma ECF.

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Introduction | Introduzione
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The Japanese Myth: A Middle‑Class Society or a Reality Overwhelmed by Global Social Polarisation?
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Contemporary Slavery and Inequality in Brazil
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Inequalities: The Economic Foundation
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Du système des inégalités aux classes sociales
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The Globalisation of Social Polarisation Within Nations
May 20, 2024

The Globalisation of Social Polarisation Within Nations
May 20, 2024

Editor-in-Chief
Fabio Perocco, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Editorial Board
Ricardo Antunes, University of Campinas
Pietro Basso, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Ajmal Hussain, University of Warwick
Olga Jubany, University of Barcelona
Nouria Ouali, Free University of Brussels
Célia Regina Vendramini, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Marcello Musto, York University

Editorial Assistants Coordinator
Giorgio Pirina, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Editorial Assistants
Francesca Cimino, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Rossana Cillo, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Francesca Rosignoli, University of Tarragona

Every article published by ECF was accepted for publication by no less than two qualified reviewers as a result of a process of anonymous reviewing (double-blind peer review). The reviewers are independent of the authors and not affiliated with the same institution.

The Journal’s Editor-in-Chief guarantees the proper execution of the peer review process for every article published in the Journal.

Peer review policies for the different sections:

Complete volume/issue: subject to peer review
Monographs/essays/articles: subject to peer review
Introductions, prefaces: no peer review
Reviews: no peer review
Editorials: no peer review

For a complete description of the process, please visit: Scientific certification.

This handbook describes the main editorial guidelines adopted in the journal. For special cases and further indications (such as the list of permitted abbreviations), please refer to the complete editorial guidelines of the Edizioni Ca’ Foscari:

https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/pubblicare-con-noi/ecf_norme_en.pdf

I. Composition of the text

The journal publishes articles. The length is free within a maximum of 50,000 characters with spaces (including the bibliography).

Formatting the Word file: limit formatting to what is strictly necessary, adopting 12 characters and avoiding small caps, special styles and line spacing other than 1. A particular case is constituted by long text citations. The use of bold is allowed for titles.

Dates, numbers, measures

The numbers must be indicated in abbreviated form omitting the parts that do not change (except for the so-called ‘teens’, 11-19). For example: 1960-5, 270-1, 256-70, 311-18 (n.b.), 1,000, 120 × 240 cm; 5 March-7 May; il Eighteenth Century; the Thirties.

Citations within the text

If less than 10 words in length, they remain in the body of the text in double quotation marks (“ ”). Lines are separated by the sign |. If longer than 10 words, the citations must be:

without quotation marks
detached from the body of the text by means of a simple white line before and one after
indented 1 cm to the left of the main text body
ended with a full stop.

Quotation within quotation: single high quotation marks (‘...’) within double quotation marks (“ ”).

Source citations should be in the original language. The translation of the quoted text, if necessary, follows immediately, in brackets and in round characters.

Omissions in the body of the quotes are marked with ‘[...]’.

Foreign words and translations

If not included in the Treccani dictionary (http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/), they must be written in italics. Transliterations are also italicized. Relevant translations go between round brackets immediately after the term. Example: Totenmal (funerary monument).

Emphasis

High quotation marks (‘’) can also be used to highlight a ‘concept’, highlight the precise meaning of a ‘term’, signal the ‘idiomatic’, ‘metaphorical’ or ‘improper’ use of a word.

Titles

The titles of literary, pictorial, sculptural, photographic, cinematographic, theatrical, musical, etc. works are italicized with capital letters.

Trait d’union

Use ‘-’ in lists and in cases such as: John Pope-Hennessy, 1960-67, May 2-June 5
Use ‘–’ to introduce parenthesis and bring sentences into direct speech (e.g. in dialogues)
Do not use ‘-’, but use the comma to distinguish the surnames of authors in the Abbreviations in the footnotes, and the semicolon to separate each group Surname-Name in the final Bibliography.

II. Bibliographic references

Abbreviations in the footnotes.

Write the author’s surname, the year of publication and the page number preceded by a comma only. This abbreviation refers to every occurrence, avoiding the use of idem, ibidem, and similar expressions.

Examples:

Rossi 2010, 25-7

Rossi 2010, 234 fn. 23 [footnote 23]

Rossi, Bianchi 2010 [coauthors]

Rossi, Bianchi, Verdi 2010 [coauthors]

Rossi et al. 2010 [more than three authors]

M. Rossi 2010, G. Rossi 2010 [authors with the same surname]

Rossi 2010a, 2010b [more works by the same author appearing in the same year]

Rossi 2010, 2011 [more works by the same author, but published in different years]

Rossi, s.d., 34 [undated work on the title page and in the imprint]

Rossi, forthcoming [to be published soon]; Bianchi (oral communication)

BSI 1985 [= ‘British Standards Institution’, similar abbreviations are to be found in the final bibliography]

Rossi 2008, 2, 2: 630 fn. 15 [= ‘volume’ 2, ‘tome’ 2: ‘page’ 630, ‘footnote’ 15]

If an edition or a translation of ancient, medieval or early modern texts is cited, at the first occurrence a unique topological reference is provided (e.g. book, chapter, paragraph; song, verse, verse, etc.) and declare the edition or translation used; in subsequent citations the univocal topological reference is sufficient. To indicate in an abbreviated form the edition or translation of similar texts, reference is made to the name of the publisher/translator, rather than that of the author.

For the citation of works of Greco-Roman antiquity, refer to the abbreviations contained in the dictionaries compiled by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott (A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford, 1996, http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu /lsj/05-general_abbreviations.html) and by Luigi Castiglioni and Scevola Mariotti (Il vocabolario della lingua latina. Turin, 1966 and subsequent editions), italicizing the abbreviation relating to the title of the work.

Examples:

Hist.

Aen.

Mk 1,17 [= the Gospel according to Mark, chapter 1, line 17]

For the items of dictionaries and encyclopedias, the surname of the author of the form and the date of publication are indicated. Example: Rossi 2004, 7. To which in the final bibliography will correspond:

Rossi, M. (2004). s.v. “Bianchi, Antonio”. Enciclopedia degli autori italiani. http://www.enciclopediaautoriintaliani.org/articles/antonio-bianchi.

For manuscripts, the conservation institution and the fund are indicated in abbreviated form. Page numbers are not preceded by abbreviations; the column ones are instead introduced by ‘col./coll.’ and the paper ones by ‘c./cc.’, which is the abbreviation to be adopted if the paper sheet is bound; ‘fol./foll.’ is the abbreviation to be preferred if the sheet is loose. In the latter two cases whether the number of paper or sheet refers to the front and/or the reverse is also indicated. The use of the abbreviation ‘ms’, where superfluous, is omitted. Example: ASV, ASC, numerazione rossa, pratica 614, b. 4235, fasc. 3, cc. 2r-v, 3v [numerazione moderna]; ASV, ASC, b. 4235, s.p. [ma 44].

Final bibliography

Abbreviations relating to bibliographic entries are listed after the text of the article. The items are listed in alphabetical order and, for the same author, from the oldest to the most recent. Each bibliographic entry reports, in the language of the cited publication:

Extended surname of the author or editor. The author’s name must be pointed. Surname and Name must repeated at each occurrence.
Year of publication in round brackets.
Title and subtitle (separated by periods).
Total number of volumes; number of the single volume and its title, if one in particular is mentioned.
Publication data (place of publication: publisher), except for periodicals.
Page numbers (for articles in journals and essays in miscellany).
Series (optional).
The additions to the data available within the publication are indicated in square brackets.

Examples

My Work. A Close Look

Our work

Our Work

The Thousand and One Nights

Translations

The work can be indexed by referring to the name of the Translator (especially in the case of classics) or, alternatively, to that of the Author, provided that the choice is consistent with the criteria adopted for the bibliographic abbreviations in the note.

Aeneid

My Work

Mon oeuvre

Opera in multiple volumes and essay in opera in multiple volumes

Essays on Art

Anthology of Mario Rossi's writings

History of Publishing

Digital Publishing

Edited book

L’opera di Giotto

Commentaires

Contribution in edited work

The title and subtitle of the contribution are shown in low brackets. After a point, the surname and name of the editor are indicated followed by '(edited by)' or similar expressions, and a comma; follows the title of the collection in italics.

The Gothic in the 19th Century

Online editions

For electronic publications, the DOI (to be preferred, if available) or the URL are used. The DOI codes, which can be deduced from the https://search.crossref.org/search/references site, are cited as: https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx.

My Work

Bernini in France

Edited Works and Essays = Conference Proceedings

Reviews

Smith, P. (2019). Review of My Work, by Black, J. Journal of Contemporary Art, 23(4), 24-7.

III. Captions

Follow these guidelines:

Title

IV. Figures

Send tiff files, in colour or in black and white, numbered in coherence with the captions, with a resolution of at least 300 ppi.

V. Checklist

Verify that the article:

indicates the author’s affiliation and email
is accompanied by bibliography, abstracts (in English), five or more keywords (in English), captions with indication of credits, and images in digital format
the file is made anonymous for the double-blind peer review.

For information and clarifications, please contact the Edizioni Ca’ Foscari editorial staff at ecf@unive.it.

Ethical Code of Inequalities

Inequalities is a peer-reviewed scientific journal whose policy is inspired by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Ethical Code. See the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publisher’s responsibilities

The Publisher must provide the Journal with adequate resources and the guidance of experts, in order to carry out its role in the most professional way, aiming at the highest quality standard.

The Publisher must have a written agreement that defines the relationship with the owner of the Journal and/or the Editor-in-Chief. The agreement must comply with the Code of Behavior for Publishers of Scientific Journals, as established by COPE.

The relationship among the Editor-in-Chief, the Advisory Board and the Publisher is based on the principle of publishing independence.

Editors’ responsibilities

The Editor-in-Chief and the Advisory Board of Inequalities alone are responsible for the decision to publish the articles submitted.

Submitted articles, after having been checked for plagiarism by means of the anti-plagiarism software Compilatio that is used by the University and is made available to us, will be sent to at least two reviewers. Final acceptance presumes the implementation of possible amendments, as required by the reviewers and under the supervision of the Inequalities Editor-in-Chief.

The Inequalities Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board must evaluate each submitted paper in compliance with the Journalʼs policy, i.e. exclusively on the basis of its scientific content, without discrimination of race, sex, gender, creed, ethnic origin, citizenship, or the scientific, academic and political position of the Authors.

Allegations of misconduct

If the Inequalities Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board notice (or receive notifications of) mistakes or inaccuracies, conflict of interest or plagiarism in a published article, they will immediately warn the Author and the Publisher and will undertake the necessary actions to resolve the issue. They will do their best to correct the published content whenever they are informed that it contains scientific errors or that the authors have committed unethical or illegal acts in connection with their published work. If necessary, they will withdraw the article or publish a recantation.

All complaints are handled in accordance with the guidelines published by the COPE.

Concerns and complaints must be addressed to the following e-mail ecf_support@unive.it. The letter should contain the following information:

complainant’s personal information;
title, author(s), publication date, DOI;
complaint(s);
declaration that the complainant has no conflict of interest, or declaration of an actual or potential conflict of interest.

Authors’ responsibilities

Stylesheet

Authors must follow the Guidelines for Authors to be downloaded from the Inequalities website.

No multiple submissions

Authors must explicitly state that their work is original in all its parts and that the submitted paper has not been previously published, nor submitted to other journals, until the entire evaluation process is completed. Since no paper gets published without significant revision, earlier dissemination in conference proceedings or working papers does not preclude consideration for publication, but Authors are expected to fully disclose publication/dissemination of the material in other closely related publications, so that the overlap can be evaluated by the Inequalities Editor-in-Chief.

Authorship

Authors are strongly encouraged to use their ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This will ensure the authors’ visibility and correct citation of their work.

Authorship must be correctly attributed; all those who have given a substantial contribution to the design, organisation and accomplishment of the research the article is based on, must be indicated as Co-Authors. Please ensure that: the order of the author names is correct; the names of all authors are present and correctly spelled, and that affiliations are up-to-date.

The respective roles of each co-author should be described in a footnote. The statement that all authors have approved the final version should be included in the disclosure.

Conflicts of interest and financing

Authors, under their own responsibility, must avoid any conflict of interest affecting the results obtained or the interpretations suggested. The Inequalities Editor-in-Chief will give serious and careful consideration to suggestions of cases in which, due to possible conflict of interest, an Author’s work should not be reviewed by a specific scholar. Authors should indicate any financing agency or the project the article stems from.

Quotations

Authors must see to it that all works consulted be properly quoted. If works or words of others are used, they have to be properly paraphrased or duly quoted. Quotations between “double quotes” (or «angled quotation marks» if the text is written in a language other than English) must reproduce the exact wording of the source; under their own responsibility, Authors should carefully refrain from disguising a restyling of the source’s wording, as though it was the original formulation.

Any form of excessive, inappropriate or unnecessary self-citation, as well as any other form of citation manipulation, are strongly discouraged.

Ethical Committee

Whenever required, the research protocols must be authorised in advance by the Ethical Committee of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Emendations

When Authors find a mistake or an inaccuracy in their own article, they must immediately warn the Inequalities Editor-in-Chief, providing all the information needed to make the due adjustments.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

Goal

By means of the peer-review procedure, reviewers assist the Inequalities Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board in taking decisions on the articles submitted. They are expected to offer the Authors suggestions as to possible adjustments aimed at improving their contribution submission.

Timing and conflicts of interest

If a reviewer does not feel up to the task of doing a given review, or if she/he is unable to read the work within the agreed schedule, she/he should notify the Inequalities Editor-in-Chief. Reviewers must not accept articles for which there is a conflict of interest due to previous contributions or to a competition with a disclosed author (or with an author they believe to have identified).

Confidentiality

The content of the reviewed work must be considered confidential and must not be used without explicit authorisation by the Author, who is to be contacted via the editor-in-chief. Any confidential information obtained during the peer review process should not be used for other purposes.

Collaborative attitude

Reviewers should see themselves not as adversaries but as advocates for the field. Any comment must be done in a collaborative way and from an objective point of view. Reviewers should clearly motivate their comments and keep in mind the Golden Rule of Reviewing: “Review for others as you would have others review for you”.

Plagiarism

Reviewers should report any similarity or overlapping of the work under analysis with other works known to them.

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Digital Labour Platforms and (New) Inequalities”. Inequalities, 2 | 2025

Platform capitalism is the result of long-term socio-economic transformations in the wake of the transition to a regime of flexible accumulation. Developments and innovations in the electronics industry, in ICTs, and in digital technologies have played a significant role in these transformations. With the advent of the second machine age and the digitisation of just about everything (Brynjolfsson, McAfee 2015), the pervasiveness of digital technologies in the various spheres and activities of social life has had multiple effects at the economic, social, cultural, and ecological levels.
But the digital sphere is not neutral: its consequences on the entirety of social life and on the world of work do not derive directly from new technologies, but from the capitalist conception and application of them. Contrary to a perspective founded in “technological neutrality”, the digitisation of labour is not simply a technical matter in which technical means dominate over capital. In digitally driven labour transformation processes, the technological element appears on the surface to prevail over the social relations that actually subsume it.
From a technological point of view, the digitisation of work is driven by digital discoveries and innovations in the context of increasingly complex ICTs, increasingly powerful computers and information systems, and total connectivity. However, these technologies are conceived and used for the appropriation of the value produced by living labour – today more rarefied than dead labour, but precisely for this reason more essential than ever to the production of value. The activation of an extensive range of activities and services brought about by the expansion of platforms and the vertical and horizontal integration of the entire economic-productive process into industry by means of automation, robotisation, and digitisation have taken place within a context of extreme centralisation, in which economic-productive process are almost totally controlled by a market logic aimed at generating profit. These are the main factors behind the production and reproduction of inequalities.
On the one hand, digital technologies have opened up once unimaginable opportunities and spaces for – albeit technologically mediated – communication between people and organisations. On the other hand, they have had severe consequences on working conditions (Antunes, Basso, Perocco 2021). Thus, Digital Labour Platforms represent a space in which are condensed the broader tensions and contradictions of the accumulation regime and contemporary modes of production.

From the perspective of the production and labour process and the transformations of workplaces, the implementation of digital technologies has given new emphasis to studies on capitalist command and control in these spheres, linked first to mechanisation, then to robotics and automation and their potential effects on the replacement of the labour force by machines (Frey, Osborne 2013; Kagermann 2015; Pollock 1956). Other studies have highlighted the degradation of work, increases in working hours, the intensification of work rhythms, and the fragmentation of work into micro-tasks increasingly mediated by information and digital technologies that opacify the employment relationship (Aneesh 2009; Antunes 2018; Huws 2014; Pfeiffer, Suphan 2015; Scholz 2016).
Some studies have also pointed out the international division of digital labour (Fuchs 2014), characterised by processes of capital accumulation based both on a multiplicity of modes of production and exploitation of labour (forced labour, extra-salarial coercion, servile labour, degraded labour, etc.) and on an economic-productive continuum ranging from mines where raw materials are extracted to digital infrastructures to cloud computing (which depends on the intense exploitation of manual and intellectual labour and of nature).

Uberisation and platform labour, and thus the digital proletariat, fit into this framework (Antunes 2023; Huws 2020; Woodcock, Graham 2019). This includes on-demand platform workers performing jobs in home delivery, urban transport, housing, and cleaning services, as well as workers employed in crowdwork (click workers) who contribute, among other things, to the training of Artificial Intelligence systems, such as machine learning, by completing specific micro-tasks (Casilli 2019; Gray, Suri 2019).

The digital driven new morphology of work is characterized by reductions in employment status and labour protections, lower wages, the intensification of work, the increased surveillance of workers, the assimilation of a performance logic imposed by algorithmic mechanisms of evaluation and classification, and the widespread conception of these forms of work as a free “provision of services” by workers who conceive of themselves as self-employed, and masters of their own working lives (Aloisi, De Stefano 2020; Crouch 2019; Schor 2020). It is based, at productive-organisational level, on a more intense application of the Taylorist factory, using information technology to transfer from the industrial to the tertiary sector the managerial systems and times and methods used in factories, thus ensuring tigher control, higher speeds, and the standardisation of white-collar and tertiary work (Head 2014). The algorithmic organisation of platform capitalism, based on the dual production and extraction of value, according to which the accumulated data contribute to an increase in the monetary value of the service offered, means that datafication and labour exploitation are consubstantial, creating a very close link between labour performance and data value chains (Casilli 2019).

This issue of Inequalities is dedicated to the impact and consequences of digital labour platforms on inequalities and the system of inequalities, in terms of, for example: labour inequalities (the labour market, the organisation of work, work processes, and working conditions); economic inequalities (wages and income); social inequalities (impoverishment in material and social terms, as well as in one’s daily life, and inequalities in the use of one’s time); health inequalities (occupational diseases and psychological impoverishment); gender inequalities and environmental inequalities. The latter concern the socio-ecological harmfulness of digitalisation arising, for example, from the mining and production processes necessary for the construction of the digital infrastructures and electronic artefacts through which digital technologies are propagated, as well as from energy consumed in the functioning of the digital infrastructure. Papers on the struggles and mobilisations against inequalities linked to digital labour platforms are also welcome. This call for papers is dedicated to the relationship between digital labour platforms and inequalities and is open to contributions investigating aspects of this relationship and the phenomena linked to it.

Contributions should be sent by 30 October 2024, in one of the following languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

In addition to sending the article directly by the deadline, there is the possibility, for those who wish, to send an article proposal to the editors for feedback. The proposal, containing the title of the article and a 300-word abstract, should be sent by 30 May 2024.

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https://ecfpeerflow.unive.it/abstracts/form/journal/30/322

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