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What Strengthening Worker Protection in the Post-Pandemic World Would Entail
Platforms exert high levels of control over delivery workers. It’s time they took responsibility for workers’ wellbeing. Mawii Zothan and…
Trump and CDA Section 230: The End of an Internet Exception?
The debate on liability of social media providers and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Richard Hill The recent…
A Chinese Feminist’s Reflections on the Pandemic
Gender, surveillance, and rights in China during Covid-19 Cai Yiping In this article, Chinese feminist Cai Yiping recounts her experiences…
A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters
Wresting power back from platform capitalism Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami In the Global South, which is home to 93…
Securing Data and Labor Rights in the Post-Covid Digital Era
Public sector workers and unions have an important part to play in shaping the digital society. With Daniel Bertossa Control…
How Public Sector Workers and Unions can Shape the Digital Economy
Asserting collective ownership rights over data is one of the most fundamental policy issues of our time. Parminder Jeet Singh…
Uncertainties Galore in the Post-Pandemic Labor Market
How the Covid crisis may impact the future of labor markets across the global South With Sabina Dewan How will…
‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain
The hidden human labor behind the world’s most complex AI systems Kai-Hsin Hung Behind the complex AI systems of digital…
It’s a No-Win for Gig Workers in the Covid-19 Moment
Gig workers find themselves in a double bind as platforms respond to the crisis with piecemeal measures. With Srujana Katta…
Networked Desolation in Indonesia’s Platform Tourism Industry
Holding platform companies accountable is the need of the hour in the Covid-19 pandemic. Caitlin Bentley Over the last decade,…
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Pandemic Meets Precarity: The Case of Platform Delivery Work in Latin America
A feminist analysis of the working conditions of platform delivery workers. Flora Partenio, Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero and Belén Valencia Castro…
Techno-Optimism is Back! This Time, as Corona Apps
Techno-solutionist approaches to Covid-19 can easily slide into opacity in the absence of accountability mechanisms. Alexandra Argüelles As the pandemic…
A Catch-22 for On-Demand Cleaners in the Philippines
On-demand domestic work combines precarity of gig work with lack of legal protection of traditional domestic work. Jessamine Pacis On-demand…
Precarity in Times of Pandemic
Covid-19 and the crisis in India’s informal labor markets Sohel Sarkar and Deepti Bharthur The appalling work conditions of platform…
Digital Splits and Risks in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Technological measures in the wake of Covid-19 has enabled heightened surveillance as well as community solidarity. François Soulard Digital communication…
Mind the App!
The Covid-19 crisis must not lead to a watering down of human rights and workers’ rights in favor of quick…
Contact-Tracing Apps: No Substitute for Public Healthcare Interventions
The global explosion of contact-tracing apps should not detract from developing public health responses and capabilities. Javier Ruiz While the…
Tech Solutions to Covid-19 Can’t Dispense with Fundamental Rights
Containing spread of Covid-19 requires exceptional measures, but these cannot come at the cost of fundamental rights. María Paz Canales…
Back to Where We’ve Always Been: Sex/Gender Segregation Amid Covid-19
Restricting movements of citizens on the basis of sex/gender reactivates the cultural norms on which the sexual division of labor…
Covid-19 Policies Leave Gig Workers Out in the Cold
How long are we willing to turn a blind eye to the vulnerabilities of workers who keep essential services running?…
The Valley and the Virus
The Covid-19 crisis has allowed Big Tech to move away from the regulatory din that has surrounded it for some…
An Alternate AI Framework – For People and the Planet
Whether AI will be a weapon of social injustice or an agent of positive change depends on the stories we…
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