EU politics
Owen Jones: Talk to Deliveroo couriers. See a dystopia that could be your future
The gig economy via tech platforms have become the epitomy of modern worker exploitation. How workers are fighting back. Read here
Gig Economy
Corruption
Nick Dearden: Big tech companies are trying to rewrite the rules to get your data
Dearden addresses all destructive march of tech companies through our societies and how they are using politicians to stop us from stopping them. Read here
Economics
Daniel Randall – Why class still matters: a reply to Paul Mason
This article is a response to Paul Mason’s recent essay ‘Labour must become the party of people who want to change the world, not just Britain’, in which he argues that there can no longer […]
Austerity
Larry Elliot: Some praise our gig economy flexibility. I call it exploitation
While Silicon Valley cannot praise the gig economy enough as a great opportunity, they forget to add that it is a great opportunity for them to earn money, not the workers. Read here
Finance
Mail Online: Several Amazon workers ‘have considered suicide since joining the company’, poll reveals while warehouse staff claim they have urinated into bottles because they’re afraid of ‘time-wasting’
Manchester Capitalism is returning to Britain after being resurrected in the United States Read here
Austerity
Jacobin: Emmanuel Macron Is Not Your Friend
“We can think of Macron as an updated, French version of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, with a dollop of the newer generation of triangulators.” An interesting analysis of Macron: past, present, and future. Read […]
Economics
New Economics Foundation – “Proptech” could exploit renters like Uber does workers
The financialisation of the rental sector left under the control of algorithms. This would be the neo-liberal reform of the housing problem that is plaguing much of Europe. It would surely porduce some attractive profits, […]
Finance
Anna Baum: Resisting the gig economy: the emergence of cooperative food delivery platforms
Workers’ cooperatives are the future of work if we wish to escape predatory capitalism. Read here
Finance
New Economics Foundation: THE UNHEARD STORIES OF PRECARIOUS WORK
Outsourcing and the gig economy have become modern slavery. It is very convenient to ignore because it is cheap and hidden. Except for those who have to earn their living from it. Read here
Deregulation
Pod črto – Working on the edge of poverty: Slovenia’s self-inflicted wound over labour market reform
The gig economy takes on many forms. The result is always the same: precarious jobs. Slovenia has its own innovation, subsidised by the EU. Read here