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Workers, algorithms & the EU: Interview with Aída Ponce Del Castillo

December 18, 2023 Ben Wray 0

What does the AI Act and the algorithmic management section of the Platform Work Directive mean for AI in the workplace? The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers […]

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Provisional agreement struck on Platform Work Directive

December 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Deal on key issue of the presumption of employment for platform workers gives member-states leeway to add more ‘indicators’. Agreement still needs to get a two-thirds majority among member-states, which could be tricky. The Gig […]

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Gig Economy Project – UK Supreme Court finds Deliveroo riders have no rights to collective bargaining because they aren’t workers

November 21, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The IWGB union say they are considering their options “under international law” after “disappointing” defeat. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click here to find out more […]

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The voices of ‘The Great Delivery’, in their own words

November 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Piero Valmassoi, journalist and platform transport policy expert, asked the participants and supporters The Great Delivery, which finished on Friday, about their experience of the unique 400 kilometre protest, and their hopes and ambitions for […]

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‘La Grande Livraison (The Great Delivery)’ by European riders is delivering hope – Statement from Korean platform workers

November 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Alliance for Korean Platform Workers for a better tomorrow has issued a statement in solidarity with European riders participating in ‘The Great Delivery’, a 400 kilometre journey from Paris to Brussels to demand platform […]

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Gig Economy Project – Why Uber drivers in the App Drivers & Couriers Union logged-off for Gaza

October 26, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Gig Economy Project speaks Abdurzaq Hadi, Uber driver and BAME officer for the ADCU, about why the union is among the leading voices of the British trade union movement opposing Israel’s siege of Gaza. […]

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Gig Economy Project – ‘Suppressing democracy’: Flink closes in Freiburg on eve of Works Council election

October 19, 2023 Ben Wray 0

German Q-Commerce platform Flink claims it has shutdown its operations in Freiburg for “purely” economic reasons, but its sacked workers disagree. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers […]

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Deliverance Milano: The “union-on-demand” for riders

October 18, 2023 Ben Wray 0

As riders’ strike in Milan this week, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator Ben Wray finds that Deliverance Milano, a grassroots collective launched eight years ago, remains in the thick of the struggle. The Gig Economy Project […]

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Finance

Gig Economy Project – Spain: “Pioneering” criminal complaint for fake-self employment could lead to jail time for Glovo bosses

September 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Legal complaint comes after the government changed the Penal Code last year to make false-self employment a criminal offence. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click […]

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Gig Economy Project – In Bosnia and Herzegovina, platform work is taking-off but remains unregulated

September 12, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Gig Economy Project speaks to Amela Kurta and Ilma Kurtović, two of the authors’ of the first study of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s platform economy, about the emergence of gig work in the post-Soviet, post-war […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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