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How Can We Make AI Work? – Interview with Esther Lynch

March 24, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Interview with the leader of the European Trade Union Confederation about artificial intelligence and work. Esther Lynch is the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). Seden Anlar is a Brussels-based journalist, podcast host/producer, moderator, […]

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Daniel Kopp – When Belgian University Cleaners Swept Out Their Boss

March 18, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘Fifty years ago, women cleaners at a Belgian university went on strike, then set up their own cooperative called the Liberated Broom. A new film shows how they kicked out the boss, starting an experiment […]

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Gig Economy

The national riders’ strike in France is bad news for Uber Eats and for Emmanuel Macron: Interview with CGT’s Ludo Rioux

December 1, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A national strike in France against Uber Eats’ new payment system on December 2-3 could be the largest in Europe yet, and exposes Emmanuel Macron’s ‘social dialogue’ system for the gig economy. The Gig Economy […]

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Finance

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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Gig Economy Project – ILO economist: ‘Platforms are not delivering the women’s empowerment they promised’

July 3, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The World Bank and the World Economic Forum have promoted ‘digital entrepreneurship’ as the answer to increase female employment and tackle gender inequality, but digital labour platforms are re-producing the same problems as traditional labour […]

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Anna-Elisabeth Hampel, Eva Luise Krause: Was unsere Forschung über Plattformarbeit zeigt und wie sie reguliert werden sollte

April 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Das Projekt “Chancengerechte Plattformarbeit” hat im Februar und März zwei Studien über die Beziehung zwischen Plattformarbeit und sozialer Ausgrenzung/Partizipation veröffentlicht. Die Autorinnen schreiben für das Gig Economy Project, fassen ihre Ergebnisse zusammen und erläutern, was […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

Geopolitics

A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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