'The deepest political challenge the company [Uber] poses... is not to any given type of regulation but to the value of regulation itself,' writes Fairwork US PI, Katie J. Wells and colleagues in this short essay in The New York Review of Books.👇

📢 Calling all organisers for workplace justice! ✊ Fairwork is excited to be part of Ella Baker School of Organising's New Organising Conference (@UniofNottingham, 5-7 July). View the full program buff.ly/4bhadk3 & apply to join: buff.ly/44D5zuf Good Jobs First Oxford Internet Institute

Happening tomorrow! Looking forward to our next hybrid talk, ‘Critical data studies with Latin America: Theorizing beyond data colonialism’ with Jonas Valente Fairwork and Rafael Grohmann University of Toronto. Wednesday 8 May, 17.00-18.00 BST. Register today! oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Enjoyed writing this in-depth piece on the gig economy in Georgia with Maradia Tsaava.

Like in the west, the gig economy is precarious & strikes are regular. The main difference is that gig work is by no means the lowest paid in Georgia's labour market.
jam-news.net/gig-work-in-ge…

'While the narratives behind the introduction of digital technologies are heavily shaped by the motivation to combat #labour shortages, the actual technologies are barely equipped to do so.'

Read Florian Butollo's paper 'The Rebound Effects of #Automation ':

➡️ doi.org/10.34669/wi.ws…

🌱🚚 The transition to reusable packaging systems must be a fair one. That's why we teamed up with #BreakFreeFromPlastic to outline 10 essential considerations for this shift. 👇🏽
#FairWork #WeChooseReuse #WorkersRights #ReuseFuture #JustTransition #GreenTransition

📢New newsletter #WageAgainstTheMachine

This week we'll discuss the #AIBill proposed by Trades Union Congress in 🇬🇧, a report from IPPR on #GenerativeAI & the EU´s approach to regulate #OnlinePlatforms via the #DSA .

Read here👉shorturl.at/bkzUW
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🚨 STRIKE ALERT🚨

App workers are marking May Day, an international day of worker solidarity and protest, by holding strike actions and rallies across 16 US CITIES, Canada, France, Belgium, and the UK.

Follow along to learn more about what we're fighting for! ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Happy International Workers' Day, May Day, Labour Day. Whatever you call it, we hope today you'll reflect on all of your hard work and all the hard work of others, whose labour your life depends on. Join the movement for better working conditions for all: buff.ly/3y3iGc4

This week is #internationalLaborDay #Mayday . We spoke to Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social about the data workers that make #AI possible, her research with them and what hope there is of improving their working conditions. Read the entire interview here 👉weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/detail…

The new journal Platforms & Society has finally launched and I am thrilled to be part of such an amazing editorial board! Check it out and send us your papers! 💥

🤩This year's PhD Summer School, entitled ' #Gender , #AI and Inclusive Work', is organized by FES Future of Work and the Weizenbaum Institute. With Prof. Gabriele Griffin, Prof. Payal Arora Payal Arora , Dr. Justyna Stypinska & Dr. Lucia Amorosi.
Learn more 👉 weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltunge…

Today and tomorrow delivery riders in Brussels go on #strike against exploitation by platforms like #UberEats and #Deliveroo .

They fight for decent working conditions, for a higher pay, for the respect of migrant workers, and for the end of robo-firings.

10AM EST, hybrid event. I'll talk about Fairwork and my research on workers governing platforms and AI

utsc.utoronto.ca/vpdean/april-3…

Dr Katie Wells gave testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Workforce Protections in Washington, based on findings from #Fairwork research. It is exciting to see this work being used to push for positive policy change! #ActionResearch