How Race Was Central to Prop 22 w/ Veena Dubal
Tech Won't Save Us
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Prop 22 and the Labor Model of the Giant Companies
Prop 22 was a ballot measure put forward by the major gig companies in california to overturn a b five, which made gig workers employees under state law. Prop 22 instead, cemented their contractor status and denied them the same rights as other workers. It's such an import point, especially when you think about how employers can naturally take advantage of these kind of different ways of classifying workers. And so i think at this point, now that we have that historical context, move on to prop 22, and the gig companies are doing in terms of their labor model, and how there are similarities between those two.
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