Arif Novianto
Lecturer · Researcher · Editor
IGPA, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Penerbit Independen (PIN)
Gig Economy
Labor Regimes
Critical Policy
Arif Novianto is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL), Universitas Tidar, and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Governance and Public Affairs (IGPA), Universitas Gadjah Mada. He also serves as Chief Editor at Penerbit Independen (PIN).
His academic work sits at the intersection of political economy, labor studies, and critical policy analysis — with a particular focus on platform capitalism, gig work, and labor regimes in the Global South, especially Indonesia. Through his research, he critically examines how state regulation, corporate power, and digital platforms reshape labor relations and normalize new forms of precarity and super-exploitation.
Latest Book · Springer, 2025
Advances a labor regime analysis of platform capitalism in developing economies, identifying five structural pillars — from labor oversupply to neoliberal state complicity — that normalize super-exploitation of platform workers.
Selected Journal Publications
Gamification from Below as a Form of Resistance
New Technology, Work and Employment · 2025
Critical Sociology · 2025
Searching for a Better Job: Indonesian Gig Workers and the Limits of Decent Work Agendas
Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation · 2023
Essential Workers Without Job Protection
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review · 2023
Edited Volumes
IGPA Press · 2024
Pseudo-Partnerships in the Gig Economy
IGPA Press · 2021
Questioning Decent and Fair Work in Indonesia’s Gig Economy
Critically examining how state regulation, corporate power, and digital platforms reshape labor relations and normalize new forms of precarity and super-exploitation in the Global South.
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