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Log Out! Worker Resistance Within and Against the Platform Economy


March 06, 2018


Emerging waves of struggles in sectors such as logistics, food delivery, journalism, and other platform-based sites of labour are showing how workers resist the casualized and precarious work conditions of the digital economy. Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon, Instagram, and many other platform-based corporations are experiencing worker refusal, organizing and struggle. Their algorithmic power is coupled with the material command over workers’ bodies, time and space. Yet while technology is used to intensify and subdue labour, it is also constantly met with resistance from workers. This will be key in future processes of liberation, as workers challenge the patterns shaped by the platform and unionize or organize for improved conditions, higher wages, predictable scheduling, and better benefits.

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Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Venue: McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
Location: 140 St. George Street, Rm 728 Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.chi.utoronto.ca/log-out/
Categories: Labour, Workplace, Unions

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