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Chris Saltmarsh – Green New Deal: a source of strategic unity in the capitalism-growth debate?

June 16, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Chris Saltmarsh, co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal and post-graduate student in Politics at the University of Sheffield, analyses the various ideological conceptualisations of the Green New Deal. This article is cross-posted from […]

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The Gig Economy Project – ‘Swipe to Finish’: My experience of being a self-employed delivery driver for Amazon

June 14, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Swipe to Finish: How Amazon exploits its drivers to subsidise your deliveries, by ‘White Van Man’, is a memoir about the experience of being a self-employed delivery driver for Amazon in the UK. The book […]

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Gig Economy Project – Work and resistance in Germany’s platform economy: Interview with Oğuz Alyanak

June 12, 2022 Ben Wray 0

What’s distinctive about Germany’s platform economy? How are platform workers in the country organising themselves to fight for better working conditions? The Gig Economy Project spoke to Oğuz Alyanak, Fair Work researcher in Berlin, to […]

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Gig Economy Project – Inside Berlin’s food delivery workers movement

June 9, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Ben Wray, the Gig Economy Project’s co-ordinator, recently travelled to Berlin to find out about the vibrant grassroots movement of gig workers in the city, organised via worker collectives. Here’s what he found. The Gig […]

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Carlos Rodríguez Expósito, Vanessa Millán Buitrago: In defence of taxis and public services in Madrid

June 3, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Carlos Rodríguez Expósito, responsible for Taxi Project in Madrid, and Vanessa Millán Buitrago, Deputy Mayor, Councillor for Ecological Transition and Spokesperson for Podemos in Rivas Vaciamadrid, write for the Gig Economy Project against yesterday’s transport […]

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Carlos Rodríguez Expósito y Vanessa Millán Buitrago: Por la defensa del Taxi y de los servicios públicos de Madrid

May 28, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Carlos Rodríguez Expósito, responsable de Proyecto Taxi en Madrid, y Vanessa Millán Buitrago, teniente de alcalde, concejala de Transición Ecológica y portavoz de Podemos en Rivas Vaciamadrid, escriben para el ‘Gig Economy Project’ contra la […]

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Gig Economy Project – Piero Valmassoi: European Parliament committee debates Platform Work Directive 

May 19, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Piero Valmassoi, an EU policy expert specialised in the platform economy, gig work and sustainable urban mobility, reports for the Gig Economy Project on The Employment and Social affairs Committee (EMPL) of the European Parliament, […]

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Gig Economy Project – The legal battle for Uber drivers’ data rights: Interview with lawyer Anton Ekker

May 16, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Anton Ekker is the lawyer for British Uber and Ola Cab drivers who, via the Worker Info Exchange, are pursuing their data rights at work at an appeal court in Amsterdam on 18 May. Before […]

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Gig Economy Project: Mixed reaction as GMB and Deliveroo sign first union recognition deal for riders in the UK

May 12, 2022 Ben Wray 0

GMB agreement includes collective bargaining over pay, but IWGB union says the GMB – which has no background in organising food delivery couriers – “presents no threat” to Deliveroo’s “exploitative business practices” The Gig Economy […]

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The Gig Economy Project – European Parliament’s right-wing divided over platform work directive

May 11, 2022 Ben Wray 0

A private hire platform lobby event in Brussels saw sharp divides within the centre-right EPP Group, and heard fears from platforms over a new attempt to push the Directive further to the left The Gig […]

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The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan

July 6, 2022 1

Book Review by Timothèe Parrique This book review originally appeared on Timothée Parrique’s blog The best the degrowth literature has to offer served on a silver platter. That’s how I would describe The Future is Degrowth: […]

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The Destiny of Civilization by Michael Hudson

June 11, 2022 1

In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the ‘dream civilization’ imposed by the 1 percent. By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and cross-posted with The Cradle […]

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