Yosuke UchiyamaChulalongkorn University · Transportation Institute
Yosuke Uchiyama
Doctor of Philosophy
Ph.D. in Social Behavioral Science (highest publication award and faculty valedictorian speech recipient)
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Introduction
Yosuke Uchiyama is a researcher at the Transportation Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
My research interests are gig economy, shared mobility, platform studies, sociology of labour, regulatory policies, cultural diplomacy, and ASEAN-Japan relations.
He earned his PhD in Social Behavioral Science from the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, recognised as a faculty speech award recipient with the highest publication award.
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Publications (15)
The rise of digital commons has expanded shared resources and addressed some challenges of traditional commons. However, this expansion has created new boundaries, forming a complex paradigm that challenges platform capitalism and demands alternative governance models. This study conceptualises shared resources within the framework of cosmolocalism...
The vulnerability and inequality of on-demand gig workers around the world are epitomised by the insecure rights that arise from the legal implications of their status. They are the biggest victims of capital accumulation under platform capitalism, which has skilfully exploited this worker–employer relationship. The resistance of gig workers is ess...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KBKUZJQSQX83HHF86BFG/full?target=10.1080/09555803.2024.2407774
Japanese popular culture (pop culture) has penetrated and influenced foreign cultural markets through various means. Japanese city pop music, popular from the 1970s through the 1980s, has charted a new trajectory in this transnational cultural spillov...
On-demand app gig work in the ASEAN region significantly impacts people's lives and the market order. Conversely, the growing balance of power in these sectors threatens the sustainability of the ASEAN digital market and the over-exploitation of customers and workers, exposing companies to fierce regional competition. By focusing on the e-hailing a...
Advances in technology and the increasing number of workers who are not constrained by traditional ways of working have fuelled gig economy activity, with several online platforms and gig workers springing up around the world. On the other hand, the problematic nature of value creation in the relationship between online platforms and gig workers ha...
This article is part of a Special Report on the Asian Gig Economy, produced in collaboration with the Asian Research Centre – University of Indonesia.
Originally published under Creative Commons by 360info™.
This article is accessible from https://360info.org/exploited-and-unprotected-life-as-a-gig-worker/
Malaysia’s taxi sector is beginning to question platform capitalism. Penyatuan Pemain Industri Pengangkutan Darat Malaysia (PPDM) has called for the creation of a new government-led platform to replace the online platform companies that have exhausted the taxi industry ecosystem. However, discussions with the Malaysian Government remain parallel. T...
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal Vol. 8, No. 2, August 2022 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
Whilst the expansion of the gig work market has enabled flexible task-based work that is not bound by employment contracts with firms, it has also given rise to various concerns about the working conditions of gig la...
The rise of the Gig Economy has created new concerns about inequality in rapidly digitising Asian economies. Whilst the emergence of the “on-demand economy” creates new opportunities for the youths and low-income groups, this has also created new policy challenges. As many use unofficial digital platforms and/or operate as unregistered self-run bus...
The spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in conjunction with rapid digitalisation has facilitated the development of digital online platforms. Those platforms have generated many gig workers by offering flexible task-based gig work. Especially, the entry of existing sectors such as transport and restaurant delivery into the g...
Penyatuan Pemain Industri Pengangkutan Darat Malaysia (PPDM), a group of people
involved in the Malaysian land transport sector requested the Malaysian Government to create a government-led e-hailing platform to improve the firm-centred industry ecosystem. However, the Malaysian Government has not given a clear response to their requests. Existing...
The Malaysian taxi industry may be at a turning point. Penyatuan Pemain Industri
Pengangkutan Darat Malaysia (PPDM) has demanded for the creation of a new
government-led platform to replace the existing private platform-based e-hailing industry.
This movement indirectly foreshadows the re-emergence of commons in e-hailing industry in Malaysia. T...
The development of technology and the flexibility to work in non-traditional ways has led to the emergence of task-based gig workers and this trend has been spreading across Japan. However, the ambiguity of the legal position on app-based on-demand gig workers has led to inequalities in labour relations. This study examines the labour union actions...
