Finance
The Gig – Hooked
Bama Athreya wanted to understand why people would drive for Uber. In this episode you’ll meet some of the drivers I met and interviewed: Tess from South Africa, Rebecca from California and Yaseen from London, […]
Gig Economy
Finance
Bama Athreya – Corona Crisis: The Ride Gets Rougher – Organizing Gig Workers Through a Pandemic
As part of our mobilisation to disseminate information concerning the self-organisation of Gig Economy workers, we would like to recommend a new podcast website: The Gig Bama Athreya is an expert on labour, gender equity, […]
Gig Economy
Ben Wray – Corona Crisis: ‘We have to fight for our lives while we’re still trying to save other people’s lives’: Interview with UK medical courier Alex Marshall
The public should have learnt by now, many of those crucially essential workers who are pulling us through the corona crisis are poorly paid, and treated like rubbish by their employers. It is not applause […]
Finance
Reuters – Corona Crisis: California sues Uber, Lyft over misclassifying drivers as contractors
California and three of its largest cities on Tuesday sued Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc, accusing them of classifying their drivers improperly as independent contractors instead of employees, evading workplace protections and withholding worker […]
Finance
Alex Foti – Italy: May Day and the Precarious Class
Alex Foti on May Days past and present. Alex Foti is a Milanese editor and activist, theorist on precarity, and author of General Theory of the Precariat (Amsterdam, 2017). Edited by BRAVE NEW EUROPE This […]
EU politics
Ben Wray – French workers 1-0 Amazon: Interview with Stéphane Enjalran on the Covid-19 Court Victory
French trade unions have won a legal action against Amazon over health & safety at work during Covid-19. Ben Wray spoke to Stéphane Enjalran, National Secretary of the Solidaires trade union, which led the court […]
Finance
Canadian Law of Work Forum: Thoughts on the Foodora Fiasco: Have Labour Laws Been Violated?
There’s a familiar pattern emerging. Foodora announces its entry into a new country with a flourish, runs into legal problems that question its sketchy business model, and then shuts down claiming that the economics don’t […]
Finance
CNBC: ‘Driven to destitution’: Delivery riders in Britain are struggling as takeout orders plummet
Restaurant closures and a crashing economy has left riders across the UK struggling to make ends meet. Read here
Economics
Guy Standing – Class Politics Fit for the Times
The outdated notions of class and the continued romanticizing of “the working class.” Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and the co-founder and […]
Deregulation
Alberto ‘Tito’ Álvarez – The Spanish Taxi Drivers’ War on Uber and “Platform Capitalism”
In early 2014 taxi drivers in Barcelona rebelled against the unbridled growth of Uber, the online ride service. In six years they have turned that fight into a general offensive against “platform capitalism” in the […]