Data rights, workers & the Gig Economy: Alex Wood speaks at ORG Bristol
Channel: OpenRightsGroup
Date: 13/11/2019

28 October 2019
Surviving insecurity and protesting injustice in the hidden gig economy
Alex Wood, University of Birmingham

Hundreds of thousands of workers in the UK are part of a hidden global gig economy. These workers are using platforms to remotely undertake tasks such as translation, transcription, programming, digital marketing, graphic design and data entry for clients potentially located on the other side of the world. Despite usually working from their homes, these workers are coming together to build communities to survive the insecurity inherent to the gig economy. This talk will explore the common grievances which platforms generate among these disparate workers and the emerging organisations and embryonic forms of action which workers are using to protest injustice in the hidden gig economy.