How many gig workers does India have? Nobody knows and it’s helping companies duck responsibility scroll.in/article/106976… via Scroll.in

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Brutal violence unleashed on students. This should stop! অবিলম্বে ছাত্র হত্যা বন্ধ হোক #eyesonBangladesh

🚨 BREAKING: Ekattor TV, one of the fiercest pro-government television stations in Bangladesh, reports that authorities have ordered a “shoot at sight” policy for protesters after announcing curfew and army deployment. Follow our live coverage for context: netra.news/2024/liveblog-…

Shaik Salauddin from the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers put it succinctly when he said that “Gig workers spend hours trying to guess what the algorithm is doing and it feels like they are a ratin a maze”.

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The state intervenes in a variety of ways to drive economic development, innovation, and technological progress. I've put together this table, aiming to cover all such examples of state intervention.

✍️ BLOG Bringing the state back into analyses of the platform economy Swati Chintala on how the Indian state influences its platform economy through regulation, protecting consumers, and managing worker welfare. digit-research.org/blog_article/b… Economic and Social Research Council University of Sussex Business School Leeds University Business School

Bombs dropped over a sunny sky as a child plays football — the powerful reference on the shirt worn by Palestine’s flag-bearer Waseem Abu Sal at the Olympics Opening Ceremony 🇵🇸

Using AI in policing may lead to targeting neighbourhoods of marginalised: CJI DY Chandrachud Read story: tinyurl.com/23hehxyy

In today's Hindustan Times, a piece on how the Karnataka Gig Workers' Bill falls short on the question of the employment status of gig workers: K’taka Bill misses gig workers’ primary ask -- hindustantimes.com/opinion/ktaka-…

Urban Company changed women’s work in India. Now, the gig workers who helped it grow are demanding more rights. Check out this video collaboration between Context News & Rest of World

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Can’t share this often enough #Riots

The scale of the turn out to stand against the possibility of the far-right targeting of a law firm in Old Market, Bristol, is huge. Here’s a walk through, pls watch, RT & follow updates here: bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…

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Algorithmic management research has been invaluable for demystify labor platforms & automation but needs situating within Workplace Regime Theory New article 'Algorithmic Management: From Technology to Politics and Theory' for WZB ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds…

Returning home after almost a year.

🎉 My commentary on the political economy of platforms is out in the newly minted Platforms & Society (Platforms & Society)! doi.org/10.1177/297686… The upshot: