Katta, Srujana  <br/><br/>
(Dis)embeddedness and (de)commodification:   COVID-19, Uber, and the unravelling logics of the gig economy/ 

 -  Sage  2020 
 - vol.10, issue 2, 2020 : (203-207 p.,). 
<br/><br/> The ride-hailing giant Uber has long circumvented labour regulations and commodified its drivers’ labour by existing at the conjuncture of multiple geographies – being simultaneously embedded and disembedded from the places where it operates. In this commentary, we argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised Uber’s ‘conjunctural’ existence and forced the company to become more embedded in the locations where it operates, bringing about a – perhaps temporary – turn towards the decommodification of its drivers’ labour