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Gig Workers Are Losing Their Hard-Won Rights
Not all of Just Eat’s orange-clad couriers were switched to salaried contracts, and the company did continue to use self-employed…
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Gorillas’ Retreat Signals a Reckoning for Delivery Apps
Gorillas is not the only rapid-delivery app that has been affected by these issues. “Rising inflation and the deteriorating macroeconomic…
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Worker-Owned Apps Are Redefining the Sharing Economy
To compete with well-funded private platforms, active government and municipal intervention is vital for platform cooperatives. This could be through…
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Sky-High Gas Prices Push Europe’s Gig Workers to Strike
A year ago, Anna (not her real name) would spend eight hours a day driving for food delivery platforms Just…
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California’s Plan to Electrify Uber and Lyft Doesn’t Add Up
California regulators, who are still hammering out the details of the Clean Miles Standard, have sensed the tension between drivers…
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China’s Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses
“Even minor disruption in the form of these very small-scale collective actions can bring the station-level managers to the bargaining…
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In Ukraine, Online Gig Workers Keep Coding Through the War
At the end of January, Hanna Kompaniets received an email from Upwork, a website where for seven years she has…
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An NFT Bubble Is Taking Over the Gig Economy
Jose Fernando Rico Mercado, 34, who co-owns three childcare facilities in Mexico, has always run side gigs, including designing notebooks…
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Grocery Apps Hoped to Win Over Amsterdam. Then Things Turned Sour
In May 2021, grocery delivery company Zapp moved into a small garage, squashed between red brick apartment buildings on a…
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Gig Workers Were Promised a Better Deal. Then They Were Outsourced
Another subcontractor in Liverpool, who declined to give his name because he was worried about losing his job, has also…
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