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Ben Wray – Can the Basque Country Turn the Tide on Uberisation?

April 23, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Momentum was building against ‘fake self-employment’ in the Basque Country before the Pandemic hit. Ben Wray examines whether the Covid-19 crisis will see Uberisation become more entrenched in ‘Euskal Herria’, or lead to strong Basque […]

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EU politics

Alberto ‘Tito’ Álvarez – La lucha del taxi en España: ayer, hoy y mañana

April 17, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

A principios de 2014, nace en Barcelona un movimiento de taxistas inconformistas. Cansados de que las administraciones y sindicatos del taxi no hicieran nada, y poco a poco se fueron sumando más taxistas. Alberto ‘Tito’ […]

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EU politics

Ekona Collective, Taxi Project 2.0 – Platforms, Workers’ Organisation, and Covid-19: lessons from Spain

April 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The dynamics of platform economies, how workers are seeking to organise in this new form of capitalist organisation, and how they have responded to the Covid-19 crisis. The Ekona Collective is an economic innovation co-operative […]

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Finance

Ben Wray – The Gig Economy Couriers: Operating Precariously at the Connection Points of the Covid-19 Economy

April 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

BRAVE NEW EUROPE has always considered the Gig Economy one of the most important economic developments of our time. Unfortunately it is totally ignored in mainstream media and by much of academia. The Lipman-Miliband Trust […]

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James Muldoon – Airbnb has been Rocked by COVID-19. Do we really want to see it Recover?

April 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s time to consider alternatives to the profit-driven models of platform capitalists. James Muldoon is a lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter Cross-posted from Open Democracy So far 2020 has not been […]

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Economics

Costas Lapavitsas: This Crisis Has Exposed the Absurdities of Neoliberalism. That Doesn’t Mean It’ll Destroy It

March 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The coronavirus shock has shaken the world’s stock markets, imposing the need for massive state bailouts. But the measures to deal with the crisis risk spurring an authoritarian controlled capitalism — one that protects corporate […]

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EU politics

Ben Wray – Corona Carnage: How the Crisis has Hit Hospitality Workers in Scotland, and how They’re Fighting Back

March 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

BRAVE NEW EUROPE has always considered the Gig Economy one of the most important economic developments of our time. Unfortunately it is totally ignored in mainstream media and by much of academia. The Lipman-Miliband Trust […]

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Economics

Vassilis K. Fouskas, Shampa Roy-Mukherjee – Corona Crisis: There Is No Alternative (TINA) – to Socialism, this Time

March 25, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We don’t get fooled again. Once more the political class is trying to rescue corporations at the expense of the 99%. Where yesterday there was no money for social policy, today there are trillions for […]

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Finance

Fairwork – Coronavirus: The Untenable Luxury of Self-Isolation

March 20, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Meanwhile back at the real economy…A coalition of gig economy researchers at Fairwork explain how gig workers are being hit hardest by COVID-19. Co-authored by Funda Ustek-Spilda, Mark Graham, Srujana Katta, Kelle Howson, Fabian Ferrari and […]

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Finance

Kelle Howson, Srujana Katta, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Mark Graham – Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ is Nothing but Fairwashing

February 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We can’t let companies that profit from undermining labour protections define what ‘good work’ is. The authors work at the University of Oxford’s Fairwork Foundation, which scrutinises working conditions at digital labour platforms. Cross-posted from […]

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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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