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- Title
Motorcycle Taxis, Extended Lockdown and Inequality at Work in Kampala, Uganda.
- Authors
Mallett, Richard; Asingura, Lillian; Ndhogezi, Geofrey; Byarugaba, Disan; Sseviiri, Hakimu
- Abstract
After two years of extended lockdown, Kampala's vast workforce of motorcycle taxi riders today looks a little different. Though the sector has long constituted a vital source of labour and income for many thousands of urban residents cut off from more decent opportunities elsewhere in the economy, a recent combination of lockdown pressures and digital transitions has created new forms of dependency upon the sector whilst simultaneously stripping some old ones away. In this article, we draw on in-depth qualitative data from interviews with riders, carried out at different stages of the pandemic, to show how the composition of labour within the sector has been reworked by a series of 'selective exits' and 'substitution effects' over the past two years. In exploring the nature and nuances of these parallel movements, our analysis not only reveals considerable socio-economic unevenness within the city's motorcycle taxi sector itself but also sheds light on a new, broader configuration of urban inequality in the making.
- Subjects
KAMPALA (Uganda); MOTORCYCLISTS; MOTORCYCLES; MOTORCYCLING; CITY dwellers; TAXICABS; FORCED labor
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2023, Vol 34, Issue 4, p501
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-022-09468-6