What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age? Thrilled about this new open-access paper with അജു | Aju in @compchange Read: doi.org/10.1177/102452… It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:

6. And we set them up globally. From recent work by Umney et al. ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) to Alex J. Wood and others', we attempt to situate Indian gig worker organising in a wider international conversation. There are patterns, but also crucial divergences.

Exited to discuss our Gig Rights Project findings that platform workers want labour rights, trade unions and works councils with Justin Madders MP, Minister for Employment Rights, today. Read the research here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj…

Write up of our Work, Employment & Society article "Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work" phys.org/news/2025-06-m…

Riders and drivers in the UK gig economy suffer anxiety over ratings and pay: cam.ac.uk/stories/gig-ec…

This is actually a surprisingly good write up of our research by the Mail who also approached Uber and Deliveroo for comment dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

This morning I spoke to BBC Radio about our new Work, Employment & Society article which highlights the insecurity and anxiety that platform workers in the gig economy experience as a result of algorithmic ratings journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Very excited that Lina Dencik has been awarded €2.5 million to explore how big tech is transforming the state.

Trending in #Economics: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Coordinating sellers’ inflation (SCED | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics) 2) Manufacturing Revolutions: S. Korea (QJE) 3) Optimal cover crop adoption 4) ‘Gig Economy’ & Job Quality in Platform Work 5) Promoting Electric Vehicles (JAERE)

El País have featured a great ARTE video which discusses are recent research published by Work, Employment and Society on working conditions in the gig economy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… If you can speak Spanish check it out here: elpais.com/internacional/…