I joined IIPP Prof Dr. Cecilia Rikap to to discuss Dr. Plixavra Vogiatzoglou‘s book on Mass Data Surveillance & Predictive Policing. 📺 Watch the event recording here: https://lnkd.in/epx_DUa8
Tag: Platform Capitalism
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. […]
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’, […]
The coronavirus is an exogenous shock to the global economy, causing panic in the financial markets, a jobs apocalypse and an unprecedented crisis in health services. At the same time, the necessary safety measures are challenging the very nature of work and human sociality. Social distancing and lockdowns have been implemented around the world and in many […]
Image Credit Chris Koch Reposted from Salvage Quarterly According to the speculations of techno-futurologists, left and right, the machines are here to liberate us. Most of the discourse is dominated by the neoliberal right such as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee and Andrew Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England. Their arguments, avoiding questions […]
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