New app workers

A delivery man from the UK food delivery company Deliveroo.

AFP / Gérard Julien

By: Charlie Dupiot Follow

2 min

Deliveroo, Uber, Etsy… If online applications and platforms offer new possibilities for consumption, they have also changed the way we work and the status of employment.

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More than a technical innovation, digital platforms would offer progress, autonomy and independence to these 2.0 workers.

Others, on the contrary, underline the deterioration of their working conditions.

How have platforms redefined the rules of the game in terms of employment?

Who are these new app workers?

How to improve their conditions?

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in San Francisco, to discuss the referendum initiated by digital platforms on the status of their workers which took place on November 3 in California.

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