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Ben Wray – Negotiating the Algorithm: Trade Union Manual
New study for the European Trade Union Confederation answers the following questions: Access the manual HERE.
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Finance
Ben Wray: Working With Delivery Platforms to Harass Migrants
Keir Starmer’s government is to provide firms like Uber Eats data on where asylum seekers are staying to help find out if they are working illegally as delivery riders. It’s a pathetic bid to get […]
Finance
Ben Wray – “Gigification”: The Future of Work?
An exploration of the consequences of the gig economy for autonomy and freedom at work. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist and researcher based in the Basque Country, Spain. He is co-author of ‘Scotland after […]
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – Israel, Iran and the media’s selective amnesia
If the media was doing it’s job, it would be asking probing questions about what happened to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and why politicians ignore Israel’s nuclear weapons? Ben Wray is a freelance journalist […]
Finance
Ben Wray: Building Solidarity in Europe’s Gig Economy
Food-delivery bike riders in London, Berlin, and Copenhagen are pushing back against their algorithmic bosses. Read HERE
Solutions
Ben Wray – Population Decline Will Transform Our Social World
Population decline is already a reality for many European countries and is looming for the rest of them. This is a seismic change in the nature of our society and the economy and the left […]
Climate Crisis
Ben Wray – China and the geopolitics of the green transition
The West is happy to sacrifice speed in its own green transitions to prevent China from controlling it’s shape. In ‘The Transnational Institute’. Read the full article HERE.
EU politics
Ben Wray – Faced with American aggression, Europe is like a rabbit in the headlights
European elites – brought up to believe the transatlantic relationship was all that mattered – are completely unprepared for American aggression towards Europe. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist and researcher based in the Basque […]
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – It’s Time to Dismantle the US Sanctions-Industrial Complex
Review of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Gig Economy
Ben Wray – Uber Boss Makes Shocking Admission Over ‘Algorithmic Wage Discrimination’
‘Uber’s CEO admitted that the company changes its drivers pay based on their “behavioural patterns”, after years of denials of the controversial policy which has been called “algorithmic wage discrimination”.’ In Novara Media. Read the […]