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NYC Cab Drivers Just Sued Uber and Lyft for Hundreds of Millions in Unpaid Wages

Executive director of New York Taxi Workers Alliance Bhairavi Desai speaks as Uber drivers participate in a rally outside of the Uber headquarters on January 5, 2023 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) Originally published by Jacobin. There are as many ways to steal wages as there are to pay them. […]

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Podcast – Marx, piece wages and the gig economy

The original post on Brave New Europe. The gig economy is often talked about as ‘the future of work’, but if we look at history we find that its wage model – paying per output, rather than per hour – actually goes back hundreds of years. In the 19th century, this was called ‘piece wages’, […]

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How Britain’s Unions Took the Fight to Amazon

Originally published in Jacobin With the support of the GMB union, British workers at Amazon’s Coventry fulfilment center have turned a wildcat strike into a fight for a collective bargaining agreement. On a mid-April morning, hundreds of workers from Amazon’s Browns Lane fulfillment center in Coventry, England, formed a picket outside of the warehouse before […]

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