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Ben Wray – “Gigification”: The Future of Work? 

June 17, 2025 Ben Wray 0

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 […]

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BBC – Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK

June 11, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The UK Government seems cock-a-hoop for robo-taxis, despite the destructive consequences for jobs, congestion and potentially road safety. Read the article HERE.

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Sophina Clark, Daniel Judt – A Half-Century of Harry Braverman’s ‘Labor and Monopoly Capital’

June 2, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘Harry Braverman’s arguments in his classic book ‘Labor and Monopoly Capital’ presciently forecasted much of our present labor regime — and can help us move beyond it.’ In Jacobin. Read the full article HERE.

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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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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 – 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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Jacobin: It’s Not Just the Gig Economy — Precarious Work Is Everywhere

April 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A new study finds insecurity and precariousness is widespread across the economy. Read the article HERE.

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Michael Roberts: Digital Work and Exploitation

December 16, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Digital technology has not fundamentally altered class relations and work under capitalism Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog John Michael Roberts (no relation) is […]

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Michael D. Yates: Work, Work, Work – So a Few Can be Rich

August 9, 2022 Ben Wray 0

We hear a lot about work in the media but hardly ever about how it is organised and executed, in a form which is radically different from most of human existence Cross-posted from Counterpunch “Bud […]

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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 […]

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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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