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Bama Athreya, Ben Wray – Decent Work in the Digital Economy: Is Data the Key?

October 10, 2020 MDRose 0

Bama Athreya of the Gig Podcast and Ben Wray of the Gig Economy Project report on the key take-aways from a recent international conference on decent work in the platform economy. This series of articles […]

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EU politics

Nicola Countouris, Valerio De Stefano – Collective-Bargaining Rights for Platform Workers

October 7, 2020 MDRose 0

The pioneering Danish collective agreement on platform-based domestic workers has been vitiated by a misguided ruling by its competition authority. Nicola Countouris is director of research at the European Trade Union Institute, professor of European […]

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Economics

Towards the Uberisation of Care? – Interview with Alisa Trojansky

October 4, 2020 MDRose 0

“Care” may be the word of 2020, alongside “coronavirus” and “lockdown”. Alisa Trojansky, assistant in the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament, is the author of “Towards the Uberisation of Care?: Platform work […]

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Finance

Ben Wray – ‘We are Suffering Absolute Insecurity’: Gig Workers Announce 8 October Global Day of Action

September 30, 2020 MDRose 0

App-based delivery workers from 12 countries around the world announced a global day of action for 8 October, and explained how they were suffering in the context of the pandemic. Ben Wray is a freelance […]

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Finance

Gig Economy: Uber and Lyft are spending $181 Million to push through a Referendum in which their Survival is at Stake 

September 27, 2020 MDRose 0

Two Gig Economy platforms are preparing a referendum in California aimed at defending their status as non-employers By Martin Manteca (SEIU-California), Tito Álvarez (Taxi Project 2.0, Spain), Isabel Chacón and Sergi Cutillas (Ekona, Spain) Translated […]

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EU politics

Carlos Rodríguez – Spain: The Victory of the Riders is a Victory for All

September 25, 2020 MDRose 0

In an important court verdict for gig economy workers, Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that ‘riders’ at Glovo, the Spanish delivery platform, are employees of the company, not self-employed. The company has responded by implying […]

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Finance

Ben Wray – The impact of Lockdown on French Gig Workers

September 23, 2020 MDRose 0

The Gig Economy Project analyses ground-breaking research on the impact of lockdown on the financial security, health and mental well-being of gig economy workers in France. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW […]

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Finance

Una ILP d’Uber? Proposta 22: una nova ofensiva contra els drets dels treballadors

September 22, 2020 MDRose 0

Com a resposta a la llei californiana AB5 que reconeix la relació laboral dels treballadors d’Uber, les companyies de plataformes han engegat una ILP per tombar-la. Es dirimeix en referèndum les condicions laborals de desenes […]

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Finance

Uber y Lyft gastan 181 millones de dólares para impulsar un referéndum en el que se juegan su supervivencia

September 22, 2020 MDRose 0

Las empresas de plataforma dedicadas al transporte basado en apps presentaron una iniciativa legislativa referendaria que tendrá lugar en paralelo al voto a las elecciones a la presidencia de los EE UU del día 3 […]

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Finance

Bama Athreya – Advancing Decent Work in the Platform Economy – 23 September International Conference

September 18, 2020 MDRose 0

Bama Athreya, Economic Inequality Fellow at the Open Society Foundations and producer of The Gig Podcast, introduces an international conference to be held on Wednesday 23 September which will look at international strategies for decent […]

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, and Doug Nicholls

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Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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