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Thorn in Your Side

Thorn in Your Side

News:Politics

Episode 8 - Precarious work in the platform economy, as observed at the local Maccas and rando taxi lane

Episode 8 - Precarious work in the platform economy, as observed at the local Maccas and rando taxi lane

2020-09-14
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m* chats with Fiona Alamyar, a legal professional who has previously written an Honours thesis on the experiences of Uber workers and the implications of this work towards greater emergence of the new platform economy.

While a matter of convenience to some workers, to other workers Fiona finds in this thesis a great deal of insecure work, particularly amongst those truly reliant on gaining income from work of this kind. Labour is changing, and the start is looking at what has changed and what are new forms of labour. Here is one such new thing.

 

Fiona's thesis can be found here: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/17724

 

Links to key union bodies mentioned in the episode urgently requiring affiliation to the Australian Council of Trade Unions:

Ride Share Drivers' Association of Australia - www.rsdaa.org.au 

Retail and Fast Food Workers' Union - www.raffwu.org.au

Scarlett Alliance - www.scarletalliance.org.au/

Australian Unemployed Workers' Union - www.unemployedworkersunion.com/

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