Tag: labor
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Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees of the ride-hailing company, the federal labor board’s general counsel said in an opinion released May 14th. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18623467/uber-driver-freelancers-employees-federal-labor-lawyer-contractor more ›
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A new t-shirt sewing robot can make as many shirts per hour as 17 factory workers » Sewing simple items of clothing is one of those repetitive, labor-intensive tasks that… more ›
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When your boss is an algorithm » The small London side street reverberates with the growl of motorbikes and the shriek of horns. more ›
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algopop: new-aesthetic: When your boss is an algorithm – FT.com It’s hard to spread the word when you don’t even know who your colleagues are. But the couriers have an… more ›
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How Uber conquered London » Every week in London, 30,000 people download Uber to their phones and order a car for the first time. The technology company, which is worth… more ›
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“Last year, [researcher Alex Rosenblat] spent 10 months monitoring online forums of Uber drivers in the US. After collating the views of thousands of drivers, studying their experiences of surges,… more ›
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“The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories,” Andreessen says. “People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what… more ›