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spir-11037	Soriano, Cheryll; Cabalquinto, Earvin	BRIDGING, COACHING, AND BOUNDARY SPANNING: BROKERAGE AND INTERMEDIATION IN THE PHILIPPINE ONLINE PLATFORM LABOR ECONOMY	2019.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1286	57	37	Yet, we see an emerging category of digital labor intermediaries—locally called influencers, peer mentors, and coaches-- who are playing a significant role in the expansion and continued uptake of digital platform labor in the country. Drawn from a combination of participant observation in digital labor online groups and interviews with prominent coaches and digital workers, we present insights into the digital interventions that these brokers engage to wield influence by filling in critical structural gaps: a) coaching digital workers on the ‘possibilities’ of the digital labor economy, on how to address the structural ambiguities of digital labor platforms, on how to build ‘marketable skills’ to attract and sustain foreign clients, and on how to find ‘good jobs’ in these platforms, (b) aiding workers to span digital work boundaries and fluidly move across available platforms and job types to mitigate labor arbitrage; and c) bridge geographically dispersed workers that allow them to form a supportive online space where opportunities for labor are shared, exchanged, and debated.	cache/spir-11037.pdf	txt/spir-11037.txt