Mariana Manriquez

Mariana Manriquez is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Arizona. Her research employs qualitative methodologies to examine how digital technologies are transforming work practices and how workers make sense of their work and themselves. Her dissertation combines ethnographic and interview methods to study platform-based delivery gig work in Mexico City. As platform-based work becomes an increasingly popular option to generate income amid economic precarity and informality, she examines how workers’ social, cultural, and economic milieus inform how they navigate, interpret, and resist digital technologies at work. In addition, she explores how these contexts shape digital technologies. Previous research includes an ethnographic and interview-based study of ride-hailing platform workers in Monterrey, Mexico. As a bicultural scholar, Mariana is enthusiastic about reformulating conceptualizations at the intersection of work and technology in light of Global South realities.

Mariana’s work has been published in Research in the Sociology of Work. Her recent article: “The Platform’s Cash Administrator’s: Delegation, Local Adaptation and Labor Control in Mexico City" was awarded Best Student Paper Award by the Communication Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section from the American Sociological Association in 2024.