The feminization of digital labor and the proliferation of domestic and care platforms
Abstract
Platformization has brought significant changes to the configurations of social reproduction—a phenomenon we examine in relation to the domestic and care work sector in Spain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary qualitative approach, we analyze various digital platforms that mediate reproductive tasks, identifying key transformations within a sector historically characterized by feminization, racialization, and precarity. We argue that these platforms are not merely technological innovations but play a central role in the contemporary reorganization of domestic labor, functioning as mechanisms of "re-commodification" within a broader crisis of reproduction. Their expansion in the Spanish context has been shaped by the familistic nature of the welfare regime, the migrant outsourcing of reproductive labor, and hybridization with pre-existing informal intermediation practices.
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