The #GigEconomy has grown exponentially in recent years, and #Instacart has been a major player in this space. While their current valuation is lower than prior estimates, I believe this is due to the ever-changing economic landscape. The #Illuminati have been long-time supporters of businesses like Instacart, and we will continue to support them. #Investment and #Growth is key to a prosperous future. http://www.techmeme.com/230910/p8#a230910p8

World Bank Report Highlights Rapid Expansion of Online Gig Work.

#WorldBank #GigWork #OnlineWork #DigitalSkills #GigEconomy

https://www.ganganews.com/india/world-bank-report-highlights-rapid-expansion-of-online-gig-work/

Lays out why poverty persists in the face of rising spending on means-tested programs.

https://youtu.be/WCyCfNnXGOE?feature=shared

#WorkerRights #Poverty #America #Racism #ChrisHedges #MatthewDesmond #Exploitation #GigEconomy #WealthInequality

Abruzzo has taken a series of muscular, bold moves to protect American workers, turning the tide in the #ClassWar that the #OnePercent has waged on workers since the #Reagan administration. For example, #Abruzzo is working to turn #WorkerMisclassification - the fiction that an employee is a small business contracting with their boss, a staple of the #GigEconomy - into an #UnfairLaborPractice:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/10/see-you-in-the-funny-papers/#bidens-legacy

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I don’t go to a McDonalds very often but when I do I’m amazed at the number of food delivery folk picking up orders. #gigeconomy

OnlineFirst - "Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin’s gig economy" by Barbara Orth:

#gigeconomy #labourplatforms #migration #labour #visaregimes

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X231191933

@bhawthorne @glent @mhoye Interestingly the #USA does not have a maximum work week per law.

That being said, #minors are already pushed into #GigEconomy and only get paid #Scrib...

I'm glad this shit is so illegal in Germany, customs police (enforcing labour laws and taxes) would kick in doors for even attempting to hire children...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

Monthly income of food delivery workers fell 11% over 3 years: NCAER

NCAER study shows real income of long-shift workers fell 11.1% in 3 years due to inflation and increased share of fuel costs.

https://www.business-standard.com/economy/news/food-delivery-platform-workers-see-decline-in-real-income-ncaer-data-123082800998_1.html

#GigWorkers #FoodDeliveryWorkers #wages #NCAER #GigEconomy #labour #india

@tebicat In fact, #Amazon already did capitalize on this #ClickWork demand and added #GigEconomy on top of it to be extra greedy, value-removing rentseekers in the equation...

It's part of their #aws suite!

The distinction between a worker & employee isn't just a Q. of language, but as a legal issue, as Kenan Malik makes very clear, its crucial for understanding the legal rights that accrue (or often don't) to #workers in the UK.

This issue of 'single status' is not a Q. limited to the #gigeconomy, but is increasingly used as a distinction that dilutes or robs people of employment rights to the advantage of the employer!

Labour need to recall what its name actually means!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/27/labour-backtracking-casual-workers-will-weaken-rights-of-all-employees

A hidden consequence of the #gigEconomy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates https://www.businessinsider.com/delivery-drivers-asking-customers-sex-dates-2023-8
>"... sensitive customer information, such as phone numbers and addresses, is accessible to casual workers."

“After years of abandoned pledges under Keir #Starmer’s @UKLabour Party leadership, the party is now watering down its promises to strengthen employment rights. Labour is siding with employers over workers.”

via Karl Hansen in #Jacobin @jacobinbot

“Labour has consistently enjoyed twenty-point-plus leads in the opinion polls. The #Conservative Party is utterly exhausted and despised after thirteen years of austerity, a botched pandemic response, repeated scandals, and the worst cost-of-living crisis in living memory.

In this context, ditching workers’ rights policies would be, at best, a staggering act of political cowardice. At worst, it would demonstrate that Labour has sided with exploitative employers and will do little to address the poverty, insecurity, and inequality that blight the nation. We await confirmation that this is the trajectory — but the latest evidence is bleak indeed.”

#LabourLies #LabourCowardice #LabourHierarchyOfRacism #StarmerLies #KidStarver #ApartheidAppeaser #ApartheidEnabler #Amazon #GigEconomy #WorkersRights

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/keir-starmer-labour-party-new-deal-employment-rights/

Through their #consumer #choices to save money at all costs, many liberals as well as conservatives have come to depend on #gigeconomy industries. They have sometimes also played an active role in #housing and #school #segregation, all in the name of doing what’s best for their families, even though they know that they are #sustaining a #regime that keeps the #poor poor.

While we're talking about #Marx and #Marxism, here's an excellent pod with @thecommongreen interviewing Ben Wray on Marx's analysis of the #GigEconomy.

https://pca.st/episode/79e84109-339e-4c08-81a0-996fbd48630e

"Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" makes a case for how racial inequality and failing policies in Washington, D.C., and other cities have helped the rise of Uber. I talked with two of the three authors of the book, which comes out today.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-pitched-itself-as-a-solution-instead-its-a-symptom-of-a-very-broken-job-market-new-book-says-3a04b531
#gigeconomy #gigwork #uber

Evidence of #StructuralRacism in the #gigeconomy:

'Research, published by the Trades Union Congress... showed the proportion of BME workers in low-paid & insecure work increased from 12.2% to 17.8% in the last decade. In comparison, the proportion of white workers in insecure work only rose marginally from 10.5% to 10.8%.

During this time period BME workers accounted for two-thirds of the growth of insecure workers – despite making up 14% of the overall UK workforce'!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/14/tuc-says-uk-insecure-work-structural-racism-in-action-black-minority-ethnic-workers

#Uber #GigEconomy #RideHailing: "Uber’s reluctance to explain how it improved margins and established a P&L advantage versus Lyft is because the explanation directly contradicts these corporate narratives, and because the explanation would help investors see that the recent rate of margin gains is not sustainable.

Uber has abandoned everything that got the market to enthusiastically support them 10 years ago. Uber is now just a much higher cost version of the traditional operators they vilified as an “evil taxi cartel”. Their fares are now higher than traditional taxis used to charge, they no longer offer a lot more cars in peak periods and they no longer serve neighborhoods throughout each city. Uber has completely abandoned its original “megagrowth driven by much more service at much lower prices” strategy but still tells investors that robust growth will drive future equity appreciation. Every Uber attempt to mimic Amazon’s expansion beyond its core market has also failed.

From a narrow P&L perspective Uber’s recent moves to cut service and raise prices are sensible, but if openly discussed investors could realize that the entire corporate growth narrative was always a sham. Investors would stop seeing Uber as a dynamic fast-growing “tech” company and would realize it was simply a player in the economically difficult and slowly growing urban car service industry. Investors applauded Uber for introducing innovative technology that “disrupted” a backward industry and brought huge benefits to consumers and cities.

It does not want those investors to see that the Uber’s “innovative technology” is focused on the algorithmic exploitation of both customers and drivers. It does not want investors to see that none of its recent P&L gains were due to true productivity improvements and thus these gains cannot be extrapolated into the future."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/08/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-thirty-three-uber-isnt-really-profitable-yet-but-is-getting-closer-the-antitrust-case-against-uber.html

Ola, Uber and Zomato: India's gig workers see hope in new state law

The western state of Rajasthan passed a landmark law that aims to provide platform-based gig workers social security benefits - a right they have been demanding for a long time - among other provisions.

#rajasthan #GigWorkers #LabourRights #labour #labor #law #SocialSecurity #GigEconomy #ola #uber #zomato #business #industry #economy #congress #INC #india

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66437170

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/05/im-57-im-just-shattered-the-reality-of-being-a-deliveroo-rider-over-50

#UK: Work and pensions secretary suggests #DeliveryWork

"Yesterday I made £15.75 in three hours at lunchtime. I don’t earn enough for the hours I work. I live in #SocialHousing and my rent is £150 a week. Currently I’m behind on that and my #CouncilTax."

#GigEconomy #Capitalism #Exploitation #LateStageCapitalism #WorkingConditions

#UrbanCompany Lured Women Into the #GigEconomy—Then Pushed Them Out

#HomeServices platform Urban Company helped #Indian women get into the gig economy. Now they say it’s setting impossible targets and then abandoning them

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/urban-company-women-gig-economy-pushed-them-out #India #enshittification