Gig Economy
Ben Wray – Platform work is dangerous
A study for the European Trade Union Confederation examines what health & safety risks platform workers face in Europe and how to tackle them. Read the report HERE.
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Economics
Ben Wray – Unprofitable Convenience
On the rapid rise and fall of Europe’s specialist grocery delivery apps. In ‘Strange Matters’. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Ben Wray – How Big Tech Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombs
Review of Nick Srnicek’s new book about AI, ‘Silicon Empires’. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – Liberalism Is Surrendering to the Hard-Right Challenge
‘As Donald Trump tramples over the norms of the postwar liberal order, centrist political leaders are only too keen to accommodate him. Global liberalism is collapsing, while the battle over what replaces it is just […]
Uncategorized
Ben Wray – Negotiating the Algorithm: Trade Union Manual
New study for the European Trade Union Confederation answers the following questions: Access the manual HERE.
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 […]