Tag: Gig-Economy
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Automating Creativity? Questioning AI’s Impact on the Arts
Dr. Tanner Mirrlees’s keynote for Hot Docs Teachers’ Conference on the topic of generative AI and automation in the creative industries and higher education. The keynote focuses on the disruption … Watch video »
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Capitalism
Christian Fuchs makes the case for turning the internet into a public service. Keep reading »
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Amazon Workers Form a Union
Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved something the company has been fighting for years to prevent: a union. The breakthrough at Amazon’s JFK8 facility is being hailed as the … Keep reading »
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Resisting Amazon Capitalism
In mid-2021, Amazon’s new Africa headquarters in Cape Town drew scores of indigenous protesters over the construction of a $291-million (US) mixed-use corporate site. Over 50,000 people – including indigenous, … Keep reading »
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Beyond Digital Capitalism: SR21 Launch and Tribute to Leo Panitch (3 May 1945 – 19 December 2020)
The North American launch of Socialist Register 21: Beyond Digital Capitalism, with presentations by Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, Bryan Palmer, Joan Sangster, Stephen Maher, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Tanner Mirrlees, and Derek Hrynyshyn, and short tributes to the life and work of Leo Panitch (1945-2020). Watch video »
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Why Amazon Is Terrified of Its US Workers Unionizing
With a second union vote at its Alabama warehouse coming at a time of rising worker disaffection, Amazon is clearly worried that American workers will go the way of Europe: toward collective bargaining for their labor rights. Keep reading »
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Striketober and the Gig Economy
What does ‘Striketober’ mean for the gig economy? Is something stirring among the workers? There are signs of a noticeable uptick in strikes internationally. In the US, where trade unions … Keep reading »
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Make Gig Work Decent Work
On most days, Doug Ford’s Conservative government in Ontario does not respond well to problems, or it actively makes things worse. If an election had been called a year-and-a-half ago, … Keep reading »
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Far From Over – Class Struggle and Union Organizing at Amazon
A presentation and roundtable discussion on class struggle and union organizing at Amazon warehouses with Alessandro Delfanti, Amazonians United workers and organizers Ira and Fathia, Paul Gray, Jessica Ireland, and Tanner Mirrlees. Watch video »
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The Big Tech Monopolies and the State /w Grace Blakeley
As the effects of the coronavirus pandemic swept through the global economy, the average observer could have been forgiven for missing a critical piece of news: by May 2020, the … Watch video »
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Capitalism’s Wet Dream: Amazon’s Patents Signal the Future It Hopes to Achieve
In anticipation of increasing robotization, two poles tend to emerge within discussions about the future of work: at one end, a post-work utopia of fully automated abundance; at the other, … Keep reading »
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This May Day Even the Designation ‘Workers’ is Under Threat
Whenever it seems that corporations have gone as far as they can in expressing their disdain for workers and any degree of worker autonomy, they manage to come up with … Keep reading »