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Gig Economy Project – ILO economist: ‘Platforms are not delivering the women’s empowerment they promised’

July 3, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The World Bank and the World Economic Forum have promoted ‘digital entrepreneurship’ as the answer to increase female employment and tackle gender inequality, but digital labour platforms are re-producing the same problems as traditional labour […]

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EU politics

Gig Economy Project – Ridehail bosses call for EU action after Spain declares taxis a ‘public service’

June 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Law comes on the eve of Spain’s General Election in response to the Court of Justice of the EU ruling earlier this month The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for […]

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Gig Economy

Gig Economy Project – The food delivery couriers who worked for three months and never got paid

June 23, 2023 Ben Wray 1

The Gig Economy Project speaks to a Wolt rider in Berlin, who was hired via a sub-contractor and was never paid. He and his colleagues are taking the food delivery platform to court. The Gig […]

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Gig Economy

Zahra Rahmouni: Undocumented black migrant workers are caught in a vicious cycle of racism in North Africa

June 20, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Employers who wish to regularise the status of workers from other African countries must go through tedious procedures to obtain a visa or work permit, even a temporary one. Read HERE Creative Commons

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Gig Economy Project – EU member-states agree Platform Work Directive position

June 12, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Both the platform lobby and pro-employment rights’ MEP Leïla Chaibi reacted critically to the Council’s Platform Work Directive position The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click […]

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Gig Economy Project – Open letter from French unions and worker collectives to EU labour ministers on the ‘French model’ and the Platform Work Directive

June 7, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Labour ministers of EU member-states are set to finalise their position on the Platform Work Directive, with reports that France – the state must opposed to strong employment rights in the Directive – now holds […]

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Finance

Gig Economy Project: Co-op Cycle – Uberisation and presumption of employment: the government challenges its own coherence

May 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Co-op Cycle is a federation of bike delivery co-operatives with 60 affiliated co-op’s in Europe. In this open letter, they criticise the French Government’s approach towards Uberisation and argue for strong employment rights for platform […]

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Finance

Co-op Cycle – Ubérisation et présomption de salariat : le gouvernement au défi de sa propre cohérence

May 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Co-op Cycle est une fédération de coopératives de livraison à vélo qui compte 60 coopératives affiliées en Europe. Dans cette lettre ouverte, elles critiquent l’approche du gouvernement français à l’égard de l’Uberisation et plaident en […]

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Finance

Gig Economy Project – Is Belgium’s platform work law “a dead letter”?

May 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Belgium introduced a platform work law on 1 January that has so far not changed anything. Gig Economy Project co-ordinator Ben Wray visited Brussels to find out what the problem is, and what lessons there […]

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EU politics

Gig Economy Project: Open letter – EU labour ministers: Will you work for us or for Uber?

May 9, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Trade unions and platform worker collectives across Europe have signed the following open letter addressed to ministers of labour of the EU member-states, calling for them to support a Platform Work Directive on the Council […]

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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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