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“I can make Rs 25000 a month, if I work 15 hours a day, 7 days a week.” Delivery boy Mohammed Arif Khan gets no provident fund, no paid leave, no growth prospects. @anweganguly & @touhid_rahat on working conditions of #GigWorkers

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“Khan is not insured. “Only if I die while delivering, my family will receive up to Rs 5,00,000. If they are aware of it.” Despite 2020 Social Security Code for #labour calling to include #GigWorkers,  companies do not treat them as employees.

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“I am in the streets from 8 am till late at night,” Mohammed Sohail, a 21-yr-old AC technician does #GigWork during #Delhi winters. He is not paid for return trips to store. He works long hours to make a minimum number of deliveries to qualify for incentives.

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This week on my #podcast, I read my @Medium column, "#GigWork Is the Opposite of #Steampunk," about the worst-of-all-worlds of #bossware, where an app is your boss, and you live at work because your home and/or car is a branch office of the factory:

doctorow.medium.com/gig-work-is-th… 1/ A woodcut of a weaver's loft, where a woman works at a hand-
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/lov… 2/
As with so much of my work these days, the column opens with a reference to the #Luddites, and to @bcmerchant's superb, forthcoming history of the Luddite uprisings, "Blood in the Machine":

littlebrown.com/titles/brian-m… 3/
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The Gig Economy Project weekly newsletter is out!

This week we look at @Elite_TaxiBcn's victory over Uber, Bolt & Cabify - are #Barcelona's Taxistas a model for how to stop the 'Uberisation' of the economy?

Get GEP's newsletter in your inbox, here: braveneweurope.com/gig-economy-pr…
In the news:

- EU anti-Trust raid of Delivery Hero & Glovo

- Stuart Delivery couriers sacked due to faulty GPS

- @FitCisl ask for Govt meeting as Gorillas Italy liquidates

- Protest as Street Fleet lays off riders

- French court finds Deliveroo guilty of "moral harassment"
On the Gig Economy Project this week:

Taxistas beat Uber in battle for Barcelona braveneweurope.com/gig-economy-pr…
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@SBAgov⁩ I am not solely depending on YouTube videos but I have read the bill so many different ways!!! You are defying a FEDERAL BILL!!!! We as small busy and sole props deserve this 10k grant!!!! PERIOD!!! #readthebill #StopTheMadness #COVID19
Also, I applied in March. 3 different times and only received a confirmation on the third because the website crashed!! Why can’t I remove the other 2 that supposedly went through as well when they are incorrect due to website issues. Get your act together! I have one
Conformation number but you guys said I have 3. The first 2 didn’t submit on my end!!! Give us some guidance!!!! Stop saying we have to wait. We have been waiting since the end of March with you guys changing the wording of a bill! #soleprop #gigworkers #wegetthe10ktoo #CARESAct
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London @Uber drivers are workers: summary & analysis of today’s Employment Appeal Tribunal decision #ukemplaw #gigwork Thread. 1/n Image
@Uber Headline story: EAT fully upholds Employment Tribunal’s findings from last November. @Uber drivers are workers, entitled to basic rights incl min wage judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/upl… 2/n Image
@Uber Decision starts with useful summary of key points (see my earlier comments here: ) 3/n
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