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Giving Workers Power to Thrive in the Face of New Technology
Big Tech companies are lobbying hard to enshrine new forms of inequality into law.
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How Gig Work Exploits Instead of Empowers Women in the Global South
In many developing countries, the informal economy is the real economy. What, then, does it mean when digital labor platforms come to those countries?
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Turk Wars: How AI Threatens the Workers Who Fuel It
The much-hyped AI tools of the future are being built by a globally dispersed army of data workers.
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Unrigging the Gig Economy
How badly do platform companies treat their workers? A recent study rated most major firms zero on a 10-point scale.
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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About
Outsourcing and contract employment models have allowed the tech industry to obscure its terrible labor practices for years. A surging movement of these workers has had enough.
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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late
Tech titans are fostering new forms of digital colonialism, both within wealthy countries and on the global stage. But it’s not too late to build a digital economy that works for everyone.
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Making the Gig Economy Work for Workers
The gig economy has upended the traditional employer-employee relationship and informalized work globally. Now workers around the world are pushing back.
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Chinese Food-Delivery Workers, Unite!
AI-driven food-delivery platforms create greater distrust and labor unrest among gig workers.