This Could Change Everything (w/ Veena Dubal)
Working People
English - October 09, 2020 06:24 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 249 ratingsSociety & Culture History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Everyone who is a worker or who cares about workers should pay attention to Prop 22 in California and understand the potentially devastating impact it could have. Professor Veena Dubal joins us on the show to talk about why.
Additional links/info below...
Veena's faculty page and Twitter page Sarah Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business, "The $185 Million Campaign to Keep Uber and Lyft Drivers as Contractors in California" Alexander Sammon, The American Prospect, "How Uber and Lyft Are Buying Labor Laws" Edward Ongweso Jr., Vice, "Uber, Lyft Give California GOP Millions While Fighting Driver Reclassification" Veena Dubal, Dissent, "Digital Piecework" Veena Dubal, Berkley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, "The Drive to Precarity: A Political History of Work, Regulation, & Labor Advocacy in San Francisco's Taxi & Uber Economies"
Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)
Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"