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I got a question about the nature of the compromise. Is the Directive a big, meaningful change? In short, yes, it is. A short🧵below.

🚨 Yesterday, the EU agreed the Platform Work Directive (#PWD). It's a game changer for the gig economy 🚕🚴 - time for a 🧵 to look at its key provisions 👇

Minneapolis council members are vowing to quickly approve alternative apps and or start a municipal app if these companies try to bully them. The apps business model is dependent on big cities like Minneapolis. Nice to see politicians calling their bluff. Big victory Mulda

For interviews with Viviana Zelizer, Claus Offe, Wolfgang Streeck and others see this new e-book in Sociologica Curated #sociologica amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/7538…

Nytt @Fafoinfo-notat, skrevet med gode Liv Tørres. Ulikheter øker og forsterker andre kriser. Vi spør: Hvorvidt og under under hvilke forutsetninger kan partene i arbeidslivet bidra til å redusere ulikhet gjennom samtaler og forhandlinger? fafo.no/images/pub/104…

Den norske sosiologforeningen, Norwegian sociology ønsker å uttrykke sin solidaritet med det palestinske folket som i over et halvt år har vært utsatt for uproporsjonal krigføring og et plausibelt folkemord. /1 Sosiologen sosiologen.no/foreningen/for…

🚨 New pre-print paper! It tells the story of NY Taxi Workers organizing Uber drivers in the broad historical context of tech change & labor in the NYC taxi industry. Theoretically it synthesizes emergent the power resource approach to studying the labor mvmt hdl.handle.net/1813/115249

SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A

I have been waiting for this video and am SO excited for you to see it. Here is what AI really does to the workforce --- and Uber has been the pioneer.

The 🇪🇺 #PlatformWork Directive: What’s new, what’s missing, what’s next? .@SilviaRainone and I teamed up again to examine the PWD main innovations, assess its contribution to the EU acquis & identify its main weaknesses. 🔗 new ETUI - European Trade Union Institute policy brief: etui.org/publications/e…

New article! I explore why taxi platform drivers in Oslo take the gig. I find that they see it as a "step up" compared to previous and other available jobs, and discuss what this tells us about platforms and the Norwegian labor market. In Acta Sociologica journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

A must read for any social scientist working on problems of meaning and interpretation. See the short summary and link below.

Tule mukaan oppimaan digiorganisoitujen työympäristöjen terveys- ja turvallisuushaasteista! 20.11.2024 klo 13.30-15. Työterveyslaitos niva.org/course/the-wor…

The LPT themed issue finally out in one place and free to access. And don't forget the webinar involving all the authors on 21st November.

Join us for a @NIVAEducation webinar on OSH challenges associated with atypical forms of employment and digitalization of work 20 November 1230-14 CET. I will present with Laura Seppänen and Stine Rasmussen (Aalborg Universitet). More info and registration here: niva.org/course/the-wor…