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There is a widespread view that labour has become irrelevant as a force for change. The argument goes that the proliferation of digital labour platfor

The argument is that with digital labour platforms and the rise in job insecurity, it means that worker resistance is increasingly futile.

Platform workers are well networked, with strengthening sinews of solidarity that transcend individual companies. It is also important to note that platform labour protest tends to emerge from the bottom up, particularly in the global South, where such protests are overwhelmingly led by informal groups of workers.

Deliveroo riders call out company for pandemic profiteering ahead of IPO 09 Mar 2021 Press Release Riders facing poverty pay and dangerous work form global network to highlight Deliveroo’s exploitative business model to investors. Deliveroo and its early investors expect to raise billions from an imminent IPO on the London Stock Exchange, but the riders who make their service possible are crying foul. Riders say Deliveroo’s predatory business model means workers shoulder s...