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Ben Wray – Focus shifts to government enforcement as platform companies seek to swerve legal defeats

February 25, 2021 MDRose 0

In the UK, Uber is acting like it is business as usual following its Supreme Court defeat last week but is under increasing pressure to comply, while in Italy a public prosecutor has hit gig […]

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Ben Wray – Platform workers set for global action to tell EU Commission: ‘We’re Employees!’

February 20, 2021 MDRose 0

Uber is doing some massive lobbying  in Brussels (they spent 200 million dollars to block the labour law in California declaring Uber drivers employees) and they have loads of money for the EU Snouts in […]

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Ben Wray – Uber drivers are workers from the moment they log-in, UK Supreme Court rules

February 17, 2021 MDRose 0

The legal verdicts against Uber and for workers are mounting up across Europe. Its business model may not be able to survive this. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW EUROPE’S Gig Economy […]

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Ben Wray – Catalan Pro-Indy Victories in Election have Raised the Stakes

February 15, 2021 MDRose 0

Ben Wray reports from the Basque country on the Catalan elections, finding both hope and predicament for the independence movement. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW EUROPE’S Gig Economy Project Cross-posted from […]

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Gig Economy Project – Podcast: ‘The difference between a slave and a worker’ – interview with Leïla Chaibi MEP

February 4, 2021 MDRose 0

Leïla Chaibi is a member of the EU Parliament for France Insoumise and long year political activist This series of articles concerning the Gig Economy in the EU was made possible thanks to the generous […]

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Ben Wray – Which way forward for gig workers’ rights? France debates ‘wage portage’

January 28, 2021 MDRose 0

The EU is moving towards a regulation of the Gig Economy. Lobbyists in Brussels are spending fast and heavy. What is on the table up to now? Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE […]

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Ben Wray – Spain’s gig economy riders win 41st court verdict against platform employers

January 13, 2021 MDRose 0

Report on latest  of 41 court verdicts against false self-employment of riders in Spain, and update on divisions over the Spanish Government’s so-called ‘Riders Law’. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW EUROPE’S […]

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Ben Wray – Italian Union Hails Court Victory over ‘Discriminatory’ Deliveroo Algorithm

January 8, 2021 MDRose 0

A Bologna court has ruled that a ranking-based algorithm used by food delivery platform Deliveroo is in breach of labour rights, in a verdict that has been hailed as an “epoch-making turning point” by an […]

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Our Gig Economy Project has Received Bridge Funding

December 14, 2020 MDRose 0

The goal of BRAVE NEW EUROPE is to be at the cutting edge of economic, political, social, and environmental developments in Europe. Long before they became popular we had promoted the Green New Deal and […]

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USA: The Proposition 22 Campaign in Perspective – Interview with Californian driver Jerome Gage

November 5, 2020 MDRose 0

Proposition 22 in California makes Trump seem an avid democrat. This was plutocracy in action. Interview by Ben Wray This series of articles concerning the Gig Economy in the EU was made possible thanks to […]

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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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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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