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A Setback for Gig Workers’ Rights in Europe

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Ben Wray on why the EU's Platform Work Directive isn’t moving forward.

Paris Marx

February 29, 2024

Delivery riders prepare to start “La Grande Livraison,” their bicycle journey from Paris to Brussels to defend their rights, in Paris on November 5, 2023.(Alain Jocard / AFP via Getty Images)

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On this episode of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, we’re joined by Ben Wray to discuss why the European Union’s Platform Work Directive isn’t moving forward, what hope remains for gig workers’ rights in Europe, and what we should make of Uber’s first annual profit.

Ben Wray is the coordinator of the Gig Economy Project and the author of Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence.

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How DOGE is Remaking the US Government w/ Makena Kelly | Tech Won't Save Us
byThe Nation Magazine

Paris Marx is joined by Makena Kelly to discuss how Elon Musk’s DOGE is reshaping the US government and the consequences that has for government employees and the wider public. 

Makena Kelly is a senior writer at WIRED and writes the weekly Politics Lab newsletter.

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Paris MarxParis Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.


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