Examining the role of governing bodies and trade unions in improving the rights of gig workers.

The digital economy continues to be marked by deep power asymmetries between capital and labor. Work precarization, and opaque, inscrutable algorithmic regimes of management chip away at decent work conditions. Automation poses wicked conundrums for economic policy in the North and South alike.

The DataSyn team chronicles the stories of activists, workers, and even nation-states’ resistance to, and resilience against Big Tech.

Exploring the experiences of women platform workers in Kenya.

In George Orwell’s 1984, the state used its absolute power to disrupt human connections, even to eliminate love. Are we now living in a real-world version of 1984 where Big Brother is Big Tech? What does this mean for the world of work and is resistance still possible?

Exploring workers’ struggle to reclaim the means of self-determination, resisting the steady march of dominant platforms.

Platforms exert high levels of control over delivery workers. It’s time they took responsibility for workers’ wellbeing.

A feminist analysis of the working conditions of platform delivery workers.

Wresting power back from platform capitalism