In which we talk to Callum Cant about his new book, "Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy".
"What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out.
His vivid account of the reality is grim. Workers are being tyrannised by algorithms and exploited for the profit of the few – but they are not taking it lying down. Cant reveals a transnational network of encrypted chats and informal groups which have given birth to a wave of strikes and protests. Far from being atomised individuals helpless in the face of massive tech companies, workers are tearing up the rulebook and taking back control. New developments in the workplace are combining to produce an explosive subterranean class struggle – where the stakes are high, and the risks are higher.
Riding for Deliveroo is the first portrait of a new generation of working class militants. Its mixture of compelling first-hand testimony and engaging analysis is essential for anyone wishing to understand class struggle in platform capitalism."
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021 - Accelerate
020 - Yeoman Coders
019 - The Cybernetic Brain, Part 2: Stafford Beer
018 - The Cybernetic Brain, Part 1: Ontological Theatre
017 - The Dispossessed, with Fraser Simons
016 - An Intersectional Analysis Of Geoengineering, with Tina Sikka
015 - Technology And The Worker
014 - Markets In The Name Of Socialism
013 - Alternatives
012 - All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, Part 3
011 - All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, Part 2
010 - All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, Part 1
009 - Red Plenty, Part 2
008 - Red Plenty, Part 1
007 - Alienation
006 - Of Flying Cars And The Declining Rate Of Profit
005 - The Californian Ideology
004 - Blade Runner 2049, Part 2
003 - Blade Runner 2049, Part 1
002 - Four Futures
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