The Gig Podcast
1) Season 2 Ep 6 Who's the Fairest
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 journalist who covered the protests about...Show More
2) Season 2 Ep 5 Turning the Tables
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 Turnin...Show More
3) Season 2 Ep 4 The Company You Keep
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 convince us that better alternativ...Show More
4) Season 2 Ep 3: Permanent Wave
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 Zainab from IT for Change (Indi...Show More
5) Season 2 Ep 2: Servants to Technology
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 about how new technologies are affec...Show More
6) Season 2 Episode 1: The World's Oldest Profession
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 Africa and Hong Kong and we talk to t...Show More
7) Season 2: Who Cares? Teaser
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 complex societies - but that ha...Show More
8) Flash Pod: Desperate Measures on Prop 22
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 tricks ...Show More
9) Episode 6: The End of the Road?
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's big...Show More
10) Episode 5: The Gig Is Up
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 their cit...Show More