The Gig Economy Project stopped in June 2024 due to lack of funding. Our archive of articles is here and of weekly newsletters is below.
Archive
30 June 2024: ‘Over and out – for now!’
23 June 2024: ‘After slashing driver pay, Uber now wants to control their phones’
16 June 2024: ‘In Spain, employed riders have fairer work than (bogus) self-employed ones’
9 June 2024: ‘A Rebel’s Guide to the Gig Economy’
2 June 2024: ‘Will Macron’s ‘social dialogue’ gig economy model last?’
26 May 2024: ‘Will the UK election be a gig economy game-changer?’
19 May 2024: ‘Monopolisation in the platform economy is bad for workers’
13 May 2024: ‘Uber back in the red’
5 May 2024: ‘Getir is a goner, Belgian progress and Platform Work Directive legal possibilities’
28 April 2024: ‘The platforms tried to write the Platform Work Directive – and failed’
21 April 2024: ‘Why breaking the law might still pay-off for platforms in Spain’
14 April 2024: ‘Sachem Head and food delivery’s financial future’
31 March 2024: ‘A stopgap and a trap: Migrants in the gig economy’
24 March 2024: ‘What “UberCheats” tells us about data and gig workers’ power’
17 March 2024: ‘Platform Work Directive approved: 3 things about what happens next’
10 March 2024: ‘Platform care: A risk to workers?’
3 March 2024: ‘Uber’s first ever profit: is it real?’
25 February 2024: ‘More questions than answers in Brussels’
18 February 2024: ‘There will be no Platform Work Directive’
11 February 2024: ‘The EU is on the verge of a Platform Work Directive-lite’
4 February 2024: ‘Historic UK food delivery strike rocks the platforms’
28 January 2024: ‘The EU is primed to fail gig workers, and it’s not just the right-wing who are to blame’
21 January 2024: Uber’s profits, drivers’ pay cuts and Dara’s special prize
14 January 2024: ‘1 month to decide on the Platform Work Directive’
23 December 2023: ‘Why did the Platform Work Directive not pass?’
17 December 2023: ‘Platform Work Directive deal agreed: 3 points’
10 December 2023: ‘Investigation: Understanding rider accidents & accident insurance’
3 December 2023: ‘Why France’s national riders’ strike matters’
26 November 2023: ‘Britain’s top judges protect poverty pay at Deliveroo’
19 November 2023: ‘Child labour, France’s “social dialogue” breakdown and a Platform Work Directive diagram’
12 November 2023: “‘¿Dónde está Yolanda Díaz?’: Platform Work Directive latest”
5 November 2023: ‘Letters (and adverts) from America’
29 October 2023: ‘Platform Work Directive: Avoiding “a gingerbread house”‘
22 October 2023: The gig economy “beyond the gig”
15 October 2023: ‘Riders need access to their data, and unions can help them’
8 October 2023: ‘In every corner of the globe, platform workers’ protest’
1 October 2023: ‘Trade unions prepare their “red line” on Platform Work Directive’
24 September 2023: ‘Platform Work Directive: Uber brings out the big threats’
17 September 2023: ‘Why do riders choose to join a union?’
10 September 2023: ‘What Hubert Horan has said about Uber’s first ever profit’
3 September 2023: ‘On the cloud: Work in the planetary labour market’
27 August 2023: ‘Getir in crisis: 3 observations’
20 August 2023: ‘Do rights for gig workers not matter anymore to the UK Labour party?’
13 August 2023: ‘What Marx said about the gig economy’
6 August 2023: ‘Jail time for Spain’s platform bandits?’
16 July 2023: ‘Riding through the heatwave: when rights can be the difference between life and death’
9 July 2023: ‘What the “Don’t Gig Up, Never!” project found’
2 July 2023: “‘The language of the unheard’: French riots and the gig economy”
25 June 2023: ‘The crisis of Q-Commerce may be existential’
18 June 2023: ‘Where are we now and what’s left to go with the Platform Work Directive?’
11 June 2023: ‘Is CJEU’s ruling the defeat for Barcelona’s public taxi model that the media claim?’
4 June 2023: ‘End-game for Platform Work Directive in sight’
28 May 2023: ‘Make platform care work visible’
21 May 2023: ‘Has the gig economy peaked?’
14 May 2023: ‘How to avoid the Platform Work Directive flopping? Learn from experience.’
7 May 2023: “‘Surprise and delight’: Uber and algorithmic wage discrimination”
30 April 2023: ‘The automatic re-classification myth’
23 April 2023: ‘From bogus self-employment to…bogus sub-contractor employment?’
9 April 2023: ‘Opening the black box’
2 April 2023: ‘What future for Q-Commerce, and its workers?’
26 March 2023: ‘Is no law better than a bad law? Platform Work Directive latest.’
19 March 2023: ‘How can gig workers win?’
12 March 2023: ‘Is a tax earthquake coming for Europe’s digital labour platforms?’
5 March 2023: ‘Resisting robo-firings in Brussels’
26 February 2023: ‘Trade unions need to take data and algorithmic management seriously’
19 February 2023: ‘The Helpling bankruptcy debate: Is ‘venture socialism’ the solution?’
12 February 2023: ‘Uber: lies, damned lies and statistics’
5 February 2023: ‘After the Euro Parl vote, what happens now with the Platform Work Directive?’
29 January 2023: ‘In Geneva, workers are using their data to take on Uber’
22 January 2023: ‘Divided France: The government and the courts at odds over platform work’
15 January 2023: ‘In Barcelona, Uber cars are being towed away’
18 December 2022: ‘Gig economy review of 2022’
13 December 2022: ‘Two big updates: Platform Work Directive and Gorillas sale’
4 December 2022: ‘Women in the gig economy’
27 November 2022: ‘Platform Work Directive machinations’
20 November 2022: ‘How gig workers can make use of data’
13 November 2022: ‘Building movement capacity in Barcelona’
6 November 2022: ‘After the defeat of Uber, a new taxi model is emerging in Barcelona’
30 October 2022: ‘What Mark MacGann revealed’
23 October 2022: ‘Gorillas: Not just a bad apple’
16 October 2022: ‘Platform Work Directive in retreat’
8 October 2022: ‘Gig work is not safe’
2 October 2022: ‘Migrant experiences of gig work’
24 September 2022: ‘Spanish platform bandits’
17 September 2022: ‘Undocumented migrants resist mass app de-activation in France’
10 September 2022: ‘Pushbacks and frustrations in Brussels’
3 September 2022: ‘What to expect from the ‘Alternatives to Uberisation’ conference’
20 August 2022: ‘Why is Sweden objecting to the Platform Work Directive?’
14 August 2022: ‘Strong enforcement is the only way to bring rogue platforms to heel’
6 August 2022: “All’s well in Uber land?”
31 July 2022: “Is Uber a ‘Road to Nowhere’?”
23 July 2022: ‘The missing piece in the Uber Files puzzle’
16 July 2022: ‘Uber Files special’
8 July 2022: ‘Barcelona’s Taxistas show how David can beat Goliath’
2 July 2022: ‘Who are the microworkers?’
24 June 2022: ‘Mick Lynch is right: it’s about power’
18 June 2022: ‘How many gig workers have been fired since this crisis began? No one knows.’
12 June 2022: ‘A victory against the scourge of sub-contracting’
4 June 2022: ‘A week in Berlin’
27 May 2022: ‘The grocery delivery culling’
21 May 2022: “France’s ‘Social Dialogue’ election: a parody of democracy”
14 May 2022: ‘The GMB-Deliveroo agreement: Partnership over counter-power’
7 May 2022: ‘Uber’s Earnings Report’
29 April 2022: ‘Happy May Day!’
22 April 2022: ‘Why the guilty verdict in the criminal trial of Deliveroo in France matters’
16 April 2022: ‘Social media content creators of the world, unite!’
7 April 2022: ‘The gig economy and the French election’
2 April 2022: ‘American predicaments’
26 March 2022: ‘Inflation is breeding class conflict in the gig economy’
19 March 2022: “The ‘crippling’ cost of gig work”
12 March 2022: ‘Is the Riders Law failing?’
4 March 2022: ‘The “black box algorithm” determining Uber driver pay’
26 February 2022: ‘Dark Stores’ come under the scrutiny of regulators’
19 February 2022: ‘A food delivery mirage?’
12 February 2022: ‘Stuart Delivery: Owned by the French state’
5 February 2022: ‘The economics of food delivery platforms’
29 January 2022: ‘France’s “social dialogue” solution to the gig economy’
23 January 2022: ‘The interpretation war begins over the EU’s Platform Work Directive’
16 January 2022: ‘The Stuart Delivery strike is breaking new ground in gig worker tactics’
9 January 2022: Glovo sale highlights tendency towards platform monopolisation
19 December 2021: ‘Is sub-contracting the achilles heel of gig worker reforms?’
12 December 2021: ‘Why the Platform Work Directive is historic’
5 December 2021: ‘Leaks and pushbacks: rumours swirl about the EU’s Platform Work Directive’
28 November 2021: ‘100 days of the Riders Law: is it working?’
21 November 2021: “‘The Amazonian Era’: New report on the ‘gigification of work'”
14 November 2021: “Uber’s driver crisis”
7 November 2021: ‘The diary of a night rider’
31 October 2021: A week in Brussels
24 October 2021: The double-exploitation of the “invisible riders”
17 October 2021: What does ‘Striketober’ mean for the gig economy?
10 October 2021: “Gorillas show the ugly side of the tech ‘disruptors'”
3 October 2021: ‘What we learned from the taxistas in Barcelona’
26 September 2021: ‘Greek strike reveals riders’ can wield real power’
19 September 2021: ‘Why it will take more than legislation rein in the platforms’
12 September 2021: “Is Uber in a ‘death spiral’?”
5 September 2021: Lobbyists, Brussels and the EU’s platform workers directive – should we be worried?
29 August 2021: Barcelona riders strike shows solidarity is possible in the gig economy