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The gig economy

'We're slaves to the platform': Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats riders are striking. Here's why
Deliveroo strike
Employment

'We're slaves to the platform': Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats riders are striking. Here's why

What is the gig economy and why is it controversial?
Gig economy courier standing outside van
Gig economy

What is the gig economy and why is it controversial?

The Uber files: leaked documents reveal a strategy of chaos – has anything changed?
A hand comes in from the side of the screen holding a mobile phone with the Uber app open. Cars are out of focus in the background
Jimena Valdez

The Uber files: leaked documents reveal a strategy of chaos – has anything changed?

Food delivery drivers are taking part in the UK's 'longest ever gig economy strike'
Strike action

Food delivery drivers are taking part in the UK's 'longest ever gig economy strike'

Food delivery riders to TfL drivers: The strikes you should know about this winter
Strike action

Food delivery riders to TfL drivers: The strikes you should know about this winter

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Ocado Zoom workers face ‘botched’ fire and rehire tactics as MP highlights their ‘appalling treatment’
Ocado Zoom workers protest outside the company's depot in Acton. Image: IWGB
Gig economy

Ocado Zoom workers face ‘botched’ fire and rehire tactics as MP highlights their ‘appalling treatment’

A National Food Service? TfL for taxis? What nationalising the gig economy could look like
Employment

A National Food Service? TfL for taxis? What nationalising the gig economy could look like

Striking Uber drivers demand end to ‘racist’ facial recognition software
Uber drivers and members of Union IWGB protest outside Uber HQ in London holding a banner saying
Employment

Striking Uber drivers demand end to ‘racist’ facial recognition software

'It's going crazy': How minicab drivers are coping with the fuel crisis
Queues for fuel at East Barnet Esso service station on Monday. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the crisis showed signs of getting better but cab drivers told a different story. Photo credit: Wikicommons / Philafrenzy
Employment

'It's going crazy': How minicab drivers are coping with the fuel crisis

'Cold and callous': The Uber Eats algorithm is sacking people automatically
Employment

'Cold and callous': The Uber Eats algorithm is sacking people automatically

Uber drivers fear workers rights changes will leave them ‘worse off’
gig economy uber
Employment

Uber drivers fear workers rights changes will leave them ‘worse off’

Gig economy: What does the Supreme Court's Uber decision mean for workers?
What does the Supreme Court's Uber decision mean for workers? Image credit: Shopblocks / Wikimedia Commons
Employment

Gig economy: What does the Supreme Court's Uber decision mean for workers?

Gig economy workers facing 'triple hit' of pandemic hardship
Workers in the gig economy are more likely to have had their employment rights violated.
Employment

Gig economy workers facing 'triple hit' of pandemic hardship

'Killed By My Debt' highlights the fatal extremes of the gig economy
Killed By My Debt, BBC3
Employment

'Killed By My Debt' highlights the fatal extremes of the gig economy

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