It feels like every day there are new articles or blog posts about how Uber drivers are exploited, or on the bad working conditions and safety standards for Deliveroo riders. In an era of ‘fake news’ can we trust that these are accurate? They most likely are, and I agree that things are not all rosy with regards to employment and working conditions of platform workers. But we should be careful with generalising from such messages that all platform work is bad.
W. de Groen, and Z. Kilhoffer. Working Paper, WPEF19058. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, (September 2019)