Online drivers work independently. But to improve their working conditions, drivers need to organise collectively.
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Drivers for online ride-hailing services face several social conditions that may challenge their efforts to transform collective action into a solid union.
Uber drives some people crazy.
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The deal, in which drivers won’t pursue their claim to be employees in exchange for the cash and other changes, raises more questions than it answers.
Bastiat would understand would Uber is going through in Paris.
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The economist Frédéric Bastiat didn’t experience the “sharing economy,” but he knew the ludicrousness of wailing against a “foreign technology.”
Is this the future of labor?
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The most radical reinvention of work since the rise of industrialization is upon us, as more of us drift toward app-enabled self-employment.
Mexico City Uber protests on July 29.
Marco Ugarte
Some theorists suggest that such platforms are making our world more efficient by natural selection. The reality is a little more complicated.