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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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Podcast – Marx, piece wages & the gig economy: Interview w/ Matt Cole

September 1, 2023 Ben Wray 0

What relevance does Marx’s writings have to understanding the wage system in the gig economy today? The Gig Economy Project speaks to Dr Matt Cole to find out. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE […]

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Gig Economy Project – As Getir’s empire rapidly shrinks, workers plot a global strike

August 24, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Turkish grocery delivery platform’s problems are generating steep lay-offs and deteriorating working conditions for those who remain, pushing workers to get organised internationally. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network […]

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Gig Economy Project – Damning French Uber Files inquiry finds Uber still has “extremely privileged links” to the state

July 18, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Report finds that there was a secret “deal” between Uber and Emmanuel Macron in 2015 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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Gig Economy Project – Accessing the algorithm to build union power: The case of Palermo

July 7, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Interview with Fabio Pace of the NIdiL CGIL union in Palermo, which has used legal action to reveal the secrets of algorithmic management and strengthen the power of food delivery couriers. Interview by Piero Valmassoi, […]

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Gig Economy Project – Defeat for the platform lobby: European Parliament backs stronger Platform Work Directive

February 2, 2023 Ben Wray 0

European Parliament now must negotiate its mandate with the Council of the EU, which has yet to agree its position THE European Parliament has voted in favour of a text which would see the presumption […]

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Gig Economy Project – Data power in the gig economy: Interview with data expert Jessica Pidoux

November 17, 2022 Ben Wray 0

The Gig Economy Project speaks to Jessica Pidoux, director of PersonalData.IO, about her critique of data in the platform economy and how gig workers can use data tools to build workers’ power (in podcast and […]

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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 […]

Economics

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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