Pluralistic: Tech workers and gig workers need each other (13 Jan 2024)

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Tech workers and gig workers need each other: Each disenshittifies the other.
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Pluralistic: When the app tries to make you robo-scab (30 July 2023)

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When the app turns you into a robo-scab: The implacable, inarguable tactics of disciplinary technology.
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Pluralistic: How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse (02 Dec 2022)

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How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse: Seize the means of computation!
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Pluralistic: 08 Jul 2021

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Indonesia's gig work tech resistance: Tuyul apps and the IT of the Road.
Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card: Here's what to do about it.
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