The urban dimension in food delivery struggle: The story of the Riders Union Bologna

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The Gig Economy Project

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The Gig Economy Project is a media network for gig workers in Europe, seeking to promote efforts to transform work in the digital age. We publish on the the Brave New Europe website, see here: https://braveneweurope.com/the-gig-economy-project Bike couriers, ‘micro-taskers’, home care workers, & many more who work on-demand in the digital platform economy & have few job protections are at the sharpest edge of capitalist exploitation, but are also providing some of the most creative and powerful forms of resistance in the working class today. This podcast provides insight into that resistance.

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The urban dimension in food delivery struggle: The story of the Riders Union Bologna

The Gig Economy Project

44 minutes 53 seconds

2 years ago

The urban dimension in food delivery struggle: The story of the Riders Union Bologna

How does the urban space and urban politics shape the relationship between food delivery platforms and their riders? In an article published in Social Europe at the end of June, Maurilio Pirone explores this question through the experience of the Riders Union in Bologna, which he was a founding member of.

The Riders Union was an inspiring example of workers’ self-organisation. Beginning with strikes and blockades in Bologna, the riders quickly realised they had to build alliances with riders in other cities and take their demands to politicians in Rome.

Pirone is now a junior researcher in the Inca project at the University of Bologna, and a member of the ‘Into the Black Box’ collective. In this podcast, the Gig Economy Project speaks to Pirone about:

01:36: The story of the Riders Union in Bologna

18:59: The urban dimension in food delivery struggles

36:08: The contemporary dynamics in the Italian platform economy and Italian politics