Exploring the challenges faced by platform workers in accessing and interpreting data rights, focusing on Spanish laws and GDPR requests. Discussing the power dynamics between platform companies and gig workers, along with the defeat of the Platform Work Directive in the EU and its broader implications on European employment protections and right-wing political influences.
Paris Marx is joined by Ben Wray to discuss why the European Union’s Platform Work Directive isn’t moving forward, what hope remains for gig workers’ rights in Europe, and what we should make of Uber’s first annual profit.
Ben Wray is the coordinator of the Gig Economy Project and the author of Scotland after Britain: The two souls of Scottish independence.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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