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Gig Economy Project – EU set to pass Platform Work Directive after last minute U-turns

March 11, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Platform Work Directive four-year legislative saga finally over after Estonia and Greece u-turns, leaving France and Germany isolated. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click here to […]

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Gig Economy Project: Podcast – The Brussels Appeal: Building the platform workers’ movement

March 5, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The Gig Economy Project speaks to three food delivery activists and organisers from Austria, Spain and Belgium about the working conditions of riders, resistance to the platforms and the barriers to political solutions. The Gig […]

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The Brussels Appeal: Proposal from the Forum on Alternatives to Uberisation, 21-22 February 2024

March 4, 2024 Ben Wray 1

Following the fourth Transnational Alternatives to Uberisation forum, which took place 21-22 February 2024, some of the participant organisations of the platform workers’ movement have prepared the following statement – The Brussels Appeal – to […]

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L’Appel de Bruxelles: Proposition du Forum sur les alternatives à l’ubérisation 21-22 février 2024

February 29, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Suite au quatrième forum Transnational Alternatives to Uberisation, qui a eu lieu les 21 et 22 février 2024, certaines des organisations participantes du mouvement des travailleurs des plateformes ont préparé la déclaration suivante – L’Appel […]

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Social Democratic MEP calls out German Chancellor over Platform Work Directive: ‘Which side are you on?’

February 27, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Debate in the European Parliament comes as hope is revived that a platform work regulation deal could be struck before the end of the parliamentary term. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE […]

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Gig Economy Project – Dead end: Platform Work Directive blocked by Germany, France, Estonia and Greece

February 16, 2024 Ben Wray 0

EU member-states fail to pass platform work regulation, in what was billed as the last opportunity to do so before the end of the parliamentary term. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE […]

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Ben Wray – Uber Boss Makes Shocking Admission Over ‘Algorithmic Wage Discrimination’

February 14, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Uber’s CEO admitted that the company changes its drivers pay based on their “behavioural patterns”, after years of denials of the controversial policy which has been called “algorithmic wage discrimination”.’ In Novara Media. Read the […]

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Gig Economy

Gig Economy Project: UK Valentine’s Day strike: Interview with Rafael, rider and strike organiser

February 13, 2024 Ben Wray 1

A Valentine’s Day strike across the UK looks set to shutdown the operations of food delivery platforms like Uber Eats and Deliveroo for the second time in two weeks. The Gig Economy Project spoke to […]

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Ben Wray – In Europe, Platform Workers Are Winning Limited Protections

February 12, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Review of Leïla Chaibi MEP’s new book, ‘Pirate MEP: How I infiltrated the European Machine’, which explains what it’s like to be a left activist in the heart of Brussels and her fight for a […]

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Rob Lucas – Unlearning Machines

February 5, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A review of Matteo Pasquinelli’s new book, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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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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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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