Are You Developing Tools to Respond to the Situations?

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Workers have developed ways of challenging the authority of restaurants, customers and the platforms and augethems themselves. They can go slow deliberately to try and get a second order tagged on - which base is usually more financially beneficial than waiting to get a second separate order. One worker even sought out his own cover 19 vaccines. He's at risk to the virus, but he also wants to protect the customer, and maybe it's going to make th mat titmore. And so they all collectively stopped excepting three dollars deliveries, four dollar deliveries,. And then realized, well we have to pay for this work now... You know, i'm giving examples of how workers are resisting these agrith

Paris Marx is joined by Tyler Riordan to discuss the state of the gig economy in Australia, the ongoing efforts to improve their conditions, and Tyler’s research on migrant food couriers in Brisbane.

Tyler Riordan is a PhD candidate in hospitality and anthropology at the University of Queensland. Follow Tyler on Twitter at @tyler_riordan.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

The deaths of gig economy workers have become a major focus on governments and the media over the past year
Australia’s federal government has an ongoing Senate committee on gig work
Uber settled a case in December 2020 to avoid a ruling on employment status, but another test case has been filed in Federal Court
Foodora pulled out of Australia in 2018
Menulog announced it was making some workers employees earlier this year

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