Finance
The Gig Economy Project is a media network for gig workers in Europe. On 10 September 2025, we re-launched the project in partnership with the ETUC’s Digital Platform Observatory. You can read about GEP 2.0 […]
Gig Economy
Finance
Mail Online: Several Amazon workers ‘have considered suicide since joining the company’, poll reveals while warehouse staff claim they have urinated into bottles because they’re afraid of ‘time-wasting’
Manchester Capitalism is returning to Britain after being resurrected in the United States Read here
Austerity
Jacobin: Emmanuel Macron Is Not Your Friend
“We can think of Macron as an updated, French version of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, with a dollop of the newer generation of triangulators.” An interesting analysis of Macron: past, present, and future. Read […]
Economics
New Economics Foundation – “Proptech” could exploit renters like Uber does workers
The financialisation of the rental sector left under the control of algorithms. This would be the neo-liberal reform of the housing problem that is plaguing much of Europe. It would surely porduce some attractive profits, […]
Finance
Anna Baum: Resisting the gig economy: the emergence of cooperative food delivery platforms
Workers’ cooperatives are the future of work if we wish to escape predatory capitalism. Read here
Finance
New Economics Foundation: THE UNHEARD STORIES OF PRECARIOUS WORK
Outsourcing and the gig economy have become modern slavery. It is very convenient to ignore because it is cheap and hidden. Except for those who have to earn their living from it. Read here
Deregulation
Pod črto – Working on the edge of poverty: Slovenia’s self-inflicted wound over labour market reform
The gig economy takes on many forms. The result is always the same: precarious jobs. Slovenia has its own innovation, subsidised by the EU. Read here
Deregulation
The Guardian: DPD courier who was fined for day off to see doctor dies from diabetes
Many Britons claim that leaving the EU would scupper the European Social Charter and expose workers to exploitation. If something like this can occur under the Charta, who needs it? Read here
Finance
New Economics Foundation – CAN ANYONE COMPETE WITH UBER?
Ethical alternatives are possible, and are popping up across the world. By Robbie Warin Cross.posted from New Economics Foundation More than 850,000 people have signed a petition launched last September to protest Uber’s licence […]
EU politics
Lina Gálvez – Spain: The rise of precarious labour
Spanish companies are clocking up profits and dividends at the expense of their workforce, especially young Spaniards, as well as to the detriment of society. No wonder young graduates are going for less glamourous jobs, […]