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Hidden transcripts of the gig economy: labour agency and the new art of resistance among African gig workers

Overview of attention for article published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, December 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#33 of 2,282)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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9 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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4 policy sources
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Article details
Title
Hidden transcripts of the gig economy: labour agency and the new art of resistance among African gig workers
Published in
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, December 2019
DOI 10.1177/0308518x19894584
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 451 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 12%
Student > Master 48 11%
Student > Bachelor 30 7%
Lecturer 28 6%
Researcher 24 5%
Other 63 14%
Unknown 205 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 94 21%
Business, Management and Accounting 60 13%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 21 5%
Arts and Humanities 13 3%
Computer Science 12 3%
Other 43 10%
Unknown 208 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 114. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 July 2025.
All research outputs
#455,327
of 33,013,884 outputs
Outputs from Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
#33
of 2,282 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,975
of 516,265 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
#1
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,013,884 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,282 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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