From online freelancing to couriering, domestic work to beauticians, digital platforms are radically changing the frontiers of work. This is a podcast series about the workers who make up the gig economy. Each episode we speak to workers who have made headlines with legal cases, taken part in strikes and those just quietly getting on with trying to put food on the table. We ask the big questions, looking at the political and the personal – exploring the radical changes to our world of work through the eyes of those at its centre. Written & Produced by Robbie Warin. Music by Louis Borlase. Fairwork is an action-research project based at the Oxford Internet Institute and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre that evaluates and rates the working conditions of digital platforms across the world.
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In the final episode of this series of the Fairwork Podcast, we look back at the different stories we've heard, what lessons have we learnt? What can these stories tell us about the nature of work in planetary labour markets? What are the challenges workers face? And what does the future hold?
If you have any thoughts, comments or suggestions, you can reach me at robbie.warin@oii.ox.ac.uk
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11 Apr 2023
010: A Roof Over My Head
Research conducted by our colleagues at the Online Labour Index at the Oxford Internet Institute found that in 2020, Serbia had around 70,000 people finding work on digital platforms. That’s around 2% of the total workforce, giving Serbia the highest per capita concentration of freelancers working via digital platforms of any country in the world.
In this episode of the Fairwork podcast we return to Belgrade Serbia and look at the freelancer protests that swept the country in 2021. In this episode we start with the story of Tamara and her role within the organisation of these strikes, before going on to look back at what the campaign has achieved in the past 2 years.
You can check out the Online Labour Index here: http://onlinelabourobservatory.org/
If you have any thoughts, suggestions or comments, you can reach me on robbie.warin@oii.ox.ac.uk
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28 Mar 2023
009: A Guide to Making Friends as a Freelancer
In this series of the Fairwork podcast, we’ve looked at work in the planetary labour market, we’ve looked at the experiences and stories of workers who work via digital platforms, from Colombia, to Germany, the USA to the UK. But in each of these stories, not once have any two workers actually met. Think about that for a moment, none of the workers I’ve spoken to for this series have ever come into physical contact with their colleagues through doing their work. But in the final two episodes of this series, we'll to focus on an example of workers coming together to deny the isolation imposed on them, to look at an example of workers who have overcome the barriers placed between them to come together, organise and campaign for their livelihoods.
In December last year I was lucky enough to spend some time in Belgrade Serbia, where I met workers, journalists and researchers and spoke to them about the freelancer strikes and protests that occurred at the end of 2020 and throughout 2021, in which workers came together to protest against changes to how the government would tax income from overseas. Serbia has one of the highest proportions of workers working via digital platforms, with an estimated 2% of the national workforce using digital platforms, and as we’ll see, new government legislation threatened to shut the platform economy in Serbia down, forever.
In this two-part episode, we look at how freelancers from across the country came together to fight for their livelihood.
Here's the Wikipedia article about the parliment building (including some pictures of the horses we reference): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_National_Assembly_of_the_Republic_of_Serbia
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