Podcasts by The Gig

The Gig

The Gig is about the women and men who work in the so-called 'gig economy' worldwide. They find work through online platforms, and will tell us why we all need to be concerned about the real future of work.

Season 2: Who Cares is about the future of the world's oldest jobs: domestic and care work
Season 1: The Ride, will focus on workers for an app just about everyone has used: Uber.

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The Gig
Season 2 Ep 6 Who's the Fairest from 2022-02-18T10:00

Who's the Fairest documents the surprise ending to this season: the wave of protests by beauty care workers in India in late December 2021.  We talk to a journalis...

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Season 2 Ep 5 Turning the Tables from 2022-01-24T11:24:05

We've learned that platforms have lots of data about workers, and use it to squeeze out more and more work.  But what if all that data was put to use on behalf of workers instead?  In ...

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Season 2 Ep 4 The Company You Keep from 2022-01-18T02:21:19

Given all we had heard about the gig economy we were skeptical there could be an ethical business model.  In The Company You Keep, one businessperson set out to co...

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Season 2 Ep 3: Permanent Wave from 2022-01-17T12:25:23

In Permanent Wave, we go to India and Thailand to talk about all the forms of intimate personal care services that take place in people's homes.  Our guests Khawla...

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Season 2 Ep 2: Servants to Technology from 2022-01-12T11:58:10

In Servants to Technology we fast forward from past to future, speaking  with two technologists, one based in New York and the other in  Barcelona, Spain abou...

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Season 2 Episode 1: The World's Oldest Profession from 2022-01-10T11:54:54

In The World’s Oldest Profession, we learn more about what domestic and care work is, and its roots in exploitation and slavery.  We meet organizers in South Afric...

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Season 2: Who Cares? Teaser from 2022-01-08T19:48:28

The Gig:  Who Cares? connects the future of work to the world's oldest jobs: domestic and care work.  It’s work that has been necessary ever since the rise of...

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Flash Pod: Desperate Measures on Prop 22 from 2020-10-27T10:48:47

For this flash pod we have two special guests, Ayoade Ibrahim from Nigeria's Union of App Based Workers, and Rey Fuentes from Partnership on Working Families, talking about the corporate dirty t...

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Episode 6: The End of the Road? from 2020-09-03T12:00

We've followed the stories of several drivers throughout this season.  It's been incredible to track the progress they have made standing up for their rights in the face of one of the world...

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Episode 5: The Gig Is Up from 2020-08-30T11:13:56

It was hard enough for app-based drivers to find one another and organize even without a global pandemic. Gig workers are inherently isolated and yet they were finding each other not only in the...

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Episode 4 Driven to Organize from 2020-08-28T09:00

When I started this project, I thought I would just be collecting stories of what it was like to work in the gig economy.  I had no idea so much organizing was going on.  I kept hearin...

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Episode 3: Judgement Day from 2020-08-27T11:00

*This episode was updated on August 27

Uber has been ignoring the law with impunity around the world.  But is the tide turning against Uber and other ride-hailing apps? &nbs...

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Episode 2: Taxi Wars from 2020-08-20T21:00

In this episode you’ll hear a tale of two cities: Cape Town and New York. In Episode 1 we learned that the Uber business model was control over drivers. In Taxi Wars we learn that it’s also abou...

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Episode 1: Hooked from 2020-08-19T20:28:32

I wanted to understand why people would drive for Uber.  In this episode you'll meet some of the drivers I met and interviewed:  Tess from South Africa, Rebecca from California and Yas...

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Flash Pod: Big Tech on its Heels This Week (ICYMI) from 2020-07-02T15:15:24

There was so much going on this week we decided to do this special 6 minute flash pod to keep our listeners up to date!  We've been tracking gig workers' legal battles around the world and ...

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The Gig Presents En Masse Podcast from 2020-06-17T12:00

We love hearing stories about working people.  While The Gig focuses on the future of work, it's important to remember the past too.  That's why we love Liz Medina's En Masse Podcast, ...

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The Gig Trailer from 2020-04-20T12:49:45

Meet drivers around the world who have been taking action to take control of their lives back from Uber and other ride-hailing apps in Season 1 of The Gig.

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