Revisiting Dependency Theory to understand labor exploitation

Surveying the broader political economy issues that must inform progressive advocacy as the ILO moves forward on a convention for platform labor.

Examining artificial intelligence tools’ co-optation of worker knowledge and the political questions that this dynamic unravels.

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

Public sector workers and unions have an important part to play in shaping the digital society.

Micro work sounds appealing in practice. However, access to these online platforms can be quite complex. The flexibility on digital labor platforms is, thus, quite illusory.