Migrant Workers in Australia’s Gig Economy w/ Tyler Riordan
Tech Won't Save Us
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Is There Any Hope That It Will Go Anywhere?
There's not as much organizing among workers, whether through unions or through their own kind of collective organizations. The reason they're not collectivizing in ways they are in other places around the world is because they're here on a short term basis. So that being said, there's not kind of formal organizing, but what we have seen are kind of individual and collective acts of resistance. They are kind of linking up to share tips, to help each other out, in terms of taxation if they have an accident. And we saw this in the case of some of those workers that died, is workers, amongst themselves, started to organize fund raising activities to pull money to get the bodies repatri
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