Tag: Africa

  • Challenging exploitation in the gig economy

    Workers are creating self-organized digital communities to support and help each other. Alex J. Wood and Mark Graham report the findings of their new study.

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  • Digital Transformations of Work

    The conference will explore issues such as the degree to which information technology is transforming capitalism and opening up new means of exploitation, whether the traditional regulation of working time, structured around a stable 9-5 5-day week, is being fractured; how labour is being fragmented and individualized and employment casualized. And whether the digital circulation of work is leading to precarity or new online entrepreneurism.

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