🚨🥳Thrilled that this is now OUT and OA @WESjnl , after many years work. We examine patterns in drivers and strategies for platform worker protest across 1271 cases, identifying Marx and Polanyi-type dynamics of labour unrest. To read: https://t.co/8rcfj9vxqz See also🧵below👇
🚨🚨Our paper “How, where and why do platform workers protest?” is now in press and can be read here: https://t.co/4FNEwxj2mq. We identify "Marx" and "Polanyi"-type patterns across 1271 global instances of platform economy labour unrest (cf Silver). A brief 🧵 about key points 👇
Delighted that this paper👇👇has now been awarded the Sage prize for Innovation and Excellence in Research, as (joint) best paper published in WES last year. The thread below summarises the core argument.
🚨🥳Thrilled that this is now OUT and OA @WESjnl , after many years work. We examine patterns in drivers and strategies for platform worker protest across 1271 cases, identifying Marx and Polanyi-type dynamics of labour unrest. To read: https://t.co/8rcfj9vxqz See also🧵below👇
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📣 Call for papers for the CERIC Doctoral Conference 2025 is now live! 📣
📅 Wednesday 21st May, 2025
📍 Clarendon Building, University of Leeds, UK
Abstracts up to 300 words via email to: [email protected]
❗ Deadline Wednesday 16th April ❗
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🚨🚨NEW!🚨🚨
In our latest country report, @MRhysPowell uses Leeds Index data to examine the emergent years of platform workers' protest in India 🇮🇳 and finds the gradual development of a nationwide movement.
Read here: 👉👉 https://t.co/9eKVcQw792
📣 NEW REPORT! ‘Digital Dialogues: Shaping the digital transformation of work’, outlines key findings from our five-year programme of research. Read it here: https://t.co/L4FLJwlZBU
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Tomorrow - CERIC Seminar online with Akram Al Ariss from @tbs_education on Employment of International Migrants. Free registration here: https://t.co/gNy8j8VLwo
Mark your calendar! The first-ever #FairworkPoland ratings are launching on December 10 at 14:00 CET! 🚗🇵🇱
REGISTER NOW for the event (in Polish): https://t.co/UUMltiaN9B
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Delivering Justice: Towards a History of Food Delivery Workers’ Organising
Wednesday 11th December 6:30PM
Join to discuss food delivery workers’ struggle in Britain when we'll be joined by Alex Marshall, President of the @IWGBunion , Morgan Rhys Powell from @Leeds_Index
Delivering Justice: Towards a History of Food Delivery Workers’ Organising
Wednesday 11th December 6:30PM
Join to discuss food delivery workers’ struggle in Britain when we'll be joined by Alex Marshall, President of the @IWGBunion , Morgan Rhys Powell from @Leeds_Index
🎉 We are delighted to announce that the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (@ESRC) has awarded Digit £8.3 million for a further five years to study the UK's evolving digital work ecosystem.
Really happy that the Leeds Index team contributes to this great collection! Our chapter is about how institutional differences across Europe generate different patterns of platform worker unrest.
BREAKING: Workers at Royal Mail subsidiary eCourier are balloting to STRIKE.
They've been misclassified as independent contractors, illegally denied basic rights like holidays & pensions.
They're fighting to transform the gig economy from the ground up.
https://t.co/RNkQV4tS4d
💻 Join us for today an insightful discussion on improving working conditions for #gigworkers.
🔗https://t.co/9mqNGenwoT
🗓️ Date: Tuesday, 10th September 2024
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Great to be part of what looks like a brilliant collection of chapters on food delivery work. Our contribution is about the surprising persistence of industrial relations regimes in explaining worker protest across Europe.
Digit Doctoral Researcher @Denis_Nmnn is quoted in a @mdrde article discussing the impact of the new EU platform work directive on workers in Germany.
Read the article below 👇 https://t.co/OaKIOZnkzR