The Gig
Bama AthreyaThe Gig is about the women and men who work in the so-called 'gig economy' worldwide. They find work through online platforms, and will tell us why we all need to be concerned about the real future of work. Season 2: Who Cares is about the future of the world's oldest jobs: domestic and care work Season 1: The Ride, will focus on workers for an app just about everyone has used: Uber. We are a part... more
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 17 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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Who's the Fairest documents the surprise ending to this season: the wave of protests by beauty care workers in India in late December 2021. We talk to a journalist who covered the protests about how the women found each other, why they organized, an... more
We've learned that platforms have lots of data about workers, and use it to squeeze out more and more work. But what if all that data was put to use on behalf of workers instead? In Turning the Tables we continue to explore what happens when you ma... more
Given all we had heard about the gig economy we were skeptical there could be an ethical business model. In The Company You Keep, one businessperson set out to convince us that better alternatives are possible. We explore how, if we keep humans in ... more
In Permanent Wave, we go to India and Thailand to talk about all the forms of intimate personal care services that take place in people's homes. Our guests Khawla Zainab from IT for Change (India) and Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn from JELI (Thailand) ... more
In Servants to Technology we fast forward from past to future, speaking with two technologists, one based in New York and the other in Barcelona, Spain about how new technologies are affecting the future of work in the care sector. We ask: are p... more
In The World’s Oldest Profession, we learn more about what domestic and care work is, and its roots in exploitation and slavery. We meet organizers in South Africa and Hong Kong and we talk to the former US Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Trafficki... more
The Gig: Who Cares? connects the future of work to the world's oldest jobs: domestic and care work. It’s work that has been necessary ever since the rise of complex societies - but that has a long history of being performed by slaves. What can the... more
For this flash pod we have two special guests, Ayoade Ibrahim from Nigeria's Union of App Based Workers, and Rey Fuentes from Partnership on Working Families, talking about the corporate dirty tricks around the Proposition 22 ballot initiative on gig... more
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