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Could Unions Disrupt Uber’s Empire? Could Unions Disrupt Uber’s Empire?
Seattle’s drivers are fighting—and beating—the Uberization of their work.
Dec 23, 2015 / Michelle Chen
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This Is How Bad the Sharing Economy Is for Workers This Is How Bad the Sharing Economy Is for Workers
And this is how reformers and activists might win protections for Silicon Valley’s so-called “independent contractors.”
Sep 14, 2015 / Michelle Chen
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Age of the Unicorn: How the Fed Tried to Fix the Recession, and Created the Tech Bubble Age of the Unicorn: How the Fed Tried to Fix the Recession, and Created the Tech Bubble
The number of “unicorn” tech companies is increasing dramatically—but the bubble will burst eventually.
Sep 3, 2015 / From the Archive / Doug Henwood
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Uber Wins a Battle With New York, Now It’s War Uber Wins a Battle With New York, Now It’s War
The fight over NYC’s Uber cap is just the beginning of a deeper struggle over the future of transportation and the gig economy.
Jul 24, 2015 / Michelle Chen
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Cabbies Are Driving the Opposition to China’s Ridesharing Revolution Cabbies Are Driving the Opposition to China’s Ridesharing Revolution
Taxi drivers are striking back to defend their right to a fair living.
Jul 17, 2015 / Michelle Chen
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Serfing the Web: On-Demand Workers Deserve a Place at the Table Serfing the Web: On-Demand Workers Deserve a Place at the Table
Workers’ voices are being excluded from discussions on the future of the “sharing economy.”
Jul 16, 2015 / Trebor Scholz and Frank Pasquale
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Hillary Clinton Puts Paycheck Feminism at the Center of Her Economic Agenda Hillary Clinton Puts Paycheck Feminism at the Center of Her Economic Agenda
Clinton is a politician who believes in pragmatism, and she has come to believe that it is pragmatic to run an explicitly liberal campaign.
Jul 13, 2015 / Michelle Goldberg
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Could This Be the Biggest Blow Yet to Uber’s Business Model? Could This Be the Biggest Blow Yet to Uber’s Business Model?
Taxi drivers in the sharing economy are fighting to make inroads against labor exploitation.
Jun 26, 2015 / Michelle Chen
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What the Sharing Economy Takes What the Sharing Economy Takes
Uber and Airbnb monetize the desperation of people in the post-crisis economy while sounding generous—and evoke a fantasy of community in an atomized population.
Jan 27, 2015 / Feature / Doug Henwood
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Uber and the Taxi Industry’s Last Stand Uber and the Taxi Industry’s Last Stand
What the rise of the app-based cab service says about the future of work in America