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Ben Wray – Platform Workers Unite: Global Digital Workers’ Conference June 25-26th

June 18, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The platform giants are organised transnationally, so platform workers need to organise at that level too. The Gig Economy Project previews an important new initiative to co-ordinate platform workers internationally. Ben Wray is a freelance […]

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Finance

The Gig: Judgement Day

June 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Uber has been ignoring the law with impunity around the world.  But is the tide turning against Uber and other ride-hailing apps?  Pushed to the brink, drivers around the world have started using the law […]

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Reuters: Uber, Lyft drivers are employees, says California regulator

June 11, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

For years, both Lyft and Uber have said that if they are forced to reclassify gig workers as employees that such a change would have an adverse effect on their profitability. Is anyone surprised? Read […]

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Ben Wray – “An Iconic Dispute”: UK Medical Couriers Strike over Sacking of ‘Troublemakers’

June 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Gig Economy is the exploitation system of the future. That is why corporations are fighting unionisation so vehemently, so that they do not ruin the business model. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading […]

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Ben Wray – Three Months in, Work is already being Transformed by the Covid-19 Crisis

June 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Gig Economy Project looks at how work is changing in Europe three months into the Covid-19 crisis, finding that the combination of corporate lobbyists exploiting the crisis and the growing dominance of the digital […]

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Carlos Rodríguez Expósito – A Taxi Driver, a Corrupt Spanish Political Class, and International Finance

May 26, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

To understand Coronavirus crisis in Spain, it is essential to understand its history of endemic corruption, in this case of public services, that is driven by politicians guided by Spain’s large financial interests (banks and […]

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Fairwork: First round of Fairwork’s yearly platform ratings in Germany launched

May 23, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Fairwork Germany 2020 report (English; German) highlights how platforms in Germany fare in the working conditions they provide to their workers. This research is particularly timely in light of the COVID-19 public health crisis, which has brought the risks faced by front-line […]

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Ben Wray – Uber Accused of Tax Fraud in Spain in Landmark Legal Case

May 20, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Taxi Project 2.0 has announced a court action today against Uber for tax fraud, in the latest offensive by the Taxi workers’ movement in Spain against the platform giant. The Gig Economy Project reports. Ben Wray […]

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Business Insider: Food delivery with third-party apps like Grubhub and Uber Eats is booming, but no one’s making money. Here’s why their business is broken

May 19, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

New York just passed a temporary 15% cap on third-party delivery commissions and a limit of 5% on marketing contributions and other related fees. And Uber Eats, which just made a bid to buy Grubhub, […]

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BBC: Coronavirus: Uber announces drastic cuts to secure its future

May 18, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Even Über Eats, despite a surge in income, is still loss making. Read here

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

March 4, 2026 0

Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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