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Who's the Fairest documents the surprise ending to this season: the wave of protests by beauty care workers in India in late December 2021. We talk to a journalist who covered the protests about how the women found each other, why they organiz
We've learned that platforms have lots of data about workers, and use it to squeeze out more and more work. But what if all that data was put to use on behalf of workers instead? In Turning the Tables we continue to explore what happens when
Given all we had heard about the gig economy we were skeptical there could be an ethical business model. In The Company You Keep, one businessperson set out to convince us that better alternatives are possible. We explore how, if we keep huma
In Permanent Wave, we go to India and Thailand to talk about all the forms of intimate personal care services that take place in people's homes. Our guests Khawla Zainab from IT for Change (India) and Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn from JELI (Thai
In Servants to Technology we fast forward from past to future, speaking with two technologists, one based in New York and the other in Barcelona, Spain about how new technologies are affecting the future of work in the care sector. We ask:
In The World’s Oldest Profession, we learn more about what domestic and care work is, and its roots in exploitation and slavery. We meet organizers in South Africa and Hong Kong and we talk to the former US Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Tra
The Gig: Who Cares? connects the future of work to the world's oldest jobs: domestic and care work. It’s work that has been necessary ever since the rise of complex societies - but that has a long history of being performed by slaves. What c
For this flash pod we have two special guests, Ayoade Ibrahim from Nigeria's Union of App Based Workers, and Rey Fuentes from Partnership on Working Families, talking about the corporate dirty tricks around the Proposition 22 ballot initiative
We've followed the stories of several drivers throughout this season. It's been incredible to track the progress they have made standing up for their rights in the face of one of the world's biggest platform companies. In this final episode w
In this episode you’ll hear a tale of two cities: Cape Town and New York. In Episode 1 we learned that the Uber business model was control over drivers. In Taxi Wars we learn that it’s also about controlling the regulators. You’ll hear how when
It was hard enough for app-based drivers to find one another and organize even without a global pandemic. Gig workers are inherently isolated and yet they were finding each other not only in their cities but around the world. How were they doin
There was so much going on this week we decided to do this special 6 minute flash pod to keep our listeners up to date! We've been tracking gig workers' legal battles around the world and this week's Supreme Court ruling in Canada was a great
When I started this project, I thought I would just be collecting stories of what it was like to work in the gig economy. I had no idea so much organizing was going on. I kept hearing about protests in so many cities. Nairobi. Jakarta. Sao
We love hearing stories about working people. While The Gig focuses on the future of work, it's important to remember the past too. That's why we love Liz Medina's En Masse Podcast, featuring oral histories of workers past and present. En Ma
*This episode was updated on August 27Uber has been ignoring the law with impunity around the world. But is the tide turning against Uber and other ride-hailing apps? Pushed to the brink, drivers around the world have started using the law t
I wanted to understand why people would drive for Uber. In this episode you'll meet some of the drivers I met and interviewed: Tess from South Africa, Rebecca from California and Yaseen from London, UK. They were lured onto the platform by t
Meet drivers around the world who have been taking action to take control of their lives back from Uber and other ride-hailing apps in Season 1 of The Gig.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegig-podcast/supp
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