Extending the platform debate beyond cities: assessing the scale and scope of platform-mediated childcare work in Switzerland
With this new paper, Corinna Hertweck, Aniko Hannak, and Karin Schwiter challenge the assumption that platform work is predominantly an urban phenomenon. Their analysis is based on 58 000 scraped worker profiles from 8 childcare platforms in Switzerland.
Image: Geographica Helvetica, figure 4 Workers per capita on Babysitting24 compared to the population density across all Swiss municipalities.