Fiverr’s game development ecosystem serves as a microcosm of larger concerns about labour practices in the gaming sector.
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The key issue at the heart of the Canada Post strike is the growth of gig work and other forms of precarious labour across the private delivery sector.
In places like India, Vietnam and China, churning out weird AI videos is the latest side hustle for students and stay-at-home mothers.
Not all jobs and pay levels will be conducive to a four-day working week.
While the gig economy offers flexibility and opportunities, it also presents significant challenges that need to be addressed to ensure the well-being of platform workers.
Addressing the problem will require a more inclusive labour market that better accommodates non-standard career paths.
Respondents to a survey confirmed they would hesitate to encourage anyone to become a freelancer given the limited prospects currently offered in the profession.
A new study found that temporary assignments in new places reignited nurses’ passion to help others and helped them rediscover the meaningfulness of their work.
Eddie Webster inspired generations of scholars with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship, in South Africa and worldwide.
Roughly 1m female delivery riders have had to face down a social media campaign which compounded longstanding false connections with sex work.
After a decade of brutal competition, hackney drivers are being invited in from the cold.
Experts say gig economy workers are less protected as more companies create benefits packages for self-employed workers.
Companies like Uber and Lyft have a long way to go in improving worker safety to ensure both drivers and passengers feel safe on the road.
A suite of protections for gig workers will be contained in legislation to be introduced into parliament next week, and will also include measures on rights for casual workers and stopping wage theft
Although work in journalism has never been a safe bet, it’s now rife with deepening uncertainty. The TVO strike aimed at job security is a matter of public interest.
These days people prefer to simply have access to goods and services, rather than outright owning them. But what does this mean for the future of consumerism?
Now that EU ministers have reached agreement on the platform work directive, the big question is whether the UK will follow suit.
Since 2011, I’ve worked in more than 20 precarious workplaces in hospitality, manufacturing and logistics – and I have only seen a union once.
The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
Our study of food delivery workers in one English city highlights the daily challenges facing undocumented migrants in this sector.
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