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Gig Economy Project: From Gig Worker to Union Leader – Interview with Alex Marshall

January 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Alex Marshall is President of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) The Gig Economy Project spoke to Alex Marshall, new President of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and former delivery […]

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Ben Wray – Spain’s gig economy riders win 41st court verdict against platform employers

January 13, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Report on latest  of 41 court verdicts against false self-employment of riders in Spain, and update on divisions over the Spanish Government’s so-called ‘Riders Law’. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW EUROPE’S […]

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Ben Wray – Italian Union Hails Court Victory over ‘Discriminatory’ Deliveroo Algorithm

January 8, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

A Bologna court has ruled that a ranking-based algorithm used by food delivery platform Deliveroo is in breach of labour rights, in a verdict that has been hailed as an “epoch-making turning point” by an […]

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Charline Sempéré – Covid-19: how the health crisis is exposing the omnipresence and mundanity of unfree labour in our economies

December 25, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The exploitation of workers is nothing new, yet how might we challenge this exploitation? The recent Covid pandemic highlights how essential workers are to our well-being and reproduction. We should therefore rethink the value we […]

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Scott Baum: The Gig Economy – a shameful failure of the neoliberal project

December 16, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

“The sharing economy amplifies the worst excesses of the dominant economic model: it is neoliberalism on steroids” Read here

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Our Gig Economy Project has Received Bridge Funding

December 14, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The goal of BRAVE NEW EUROPE is to be at the cutting edge of economic, political, social, and environmental developments in Europe. Long before they became popular we had promoted the Green New Deal and […]

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Finance

The Workers’ Observatory – Does traditional Union Organising Work in Food Delivery?: The McAlevey Method on Wheels

December 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The wheel does not have to be constantly re-invented, although there is always room for technical improvements. The Workers Observatory  is a collaboration of gig workers and researchers, supported by the Scottish Trades’ Union Congress and […]

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Finance

Cailean Gallagher: Why Workers Observatories can Help Empower Gig Workers

November 19, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Cailean Gallagher, one of the co-ordinators of Workers Observatory, looks at the growth of more ambitious workers observatories in Europe seeking to understand the changing nature of work, and empower workers themselves to research, access […]

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Finance

Valerio De Stefano – “I now pronounce you contractor”: Prop22, Labour Platforms, and Legislative Doublespeak

November 15, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is such an important topic. Although liberal democracy is basically corrupt, even if democracy functions, with enough money this can be bypassed. Valerio De Stefano is the BOF-ZAP Professor of Labour Law at the […]

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Annemarie Kern and Valentin Niebler: The YouTubers Union – A Novel Case of Platform Worker Organising

November 14, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

In September 2020, Annemarie Kern, a student assistant at Humboldt University Berlin, and Valentin Niebler, a sociologist at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, published “Organising YouTube. A novel case of platform worker organising” for the Friedrich […]

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This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain by Will Davies

January 9, 2021 0

Book Review by Sean Kippin There is a particular brand of UK media figure. Usually male, they revel in the gossip, intrigue and parlour games of British politics. Policy seems to bore them. Economic policy is […]

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The Call of Catalonia by Sue Crampton

December 14, 2020 0

Book Review by Toni Strubell Sue Crampton’s “The Call of Catalonia”, apart from being a good read, is a book that will be useful to those wondering what the recent kerfuffle was about with the […]

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