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hubert guillaud

Après les protestations - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • hubert guillaud on 20 Mar 14
     
    Zeynep Tufecki revient sur comment les manifestations se coordonnent facilement en ligne, en évoquant la dernière manifestation turque qui a rassemblé quelques 100 000 personnes suite à la mort, après près d'un an de coma, d'un jeune collégien, symbole de la résistance civique en Turquie. Il a suffit d'un tweet pour que 100 000 personnes s'assemblent à l'enterrement et manifestent. Les outils sociaux permettent une coordination plus facile pour les manifestants que ne le permettaient les ronéotypes des années 60, rappelle la chercheuse spécialiste des mouvements contestataires. On peut certes tourner en dérision les "J'aime" sur Facebook, il n'empêche qu'ils peuvent avoir des conséquences à long terme. Les pouvoirs en place en sont bien conscients. En Turquie, le premier ministre a désigné les médias sociaux comme une menace pour la société et le Parlement a voté une loi qui augmente sa capacité de censure et de surveillance. Les médias, dans les mains des citoyens peuvent ébranler les régimes dont la légitimité est affaiblie par un contrôle de la sphère publique rendu plus difficile. Mais encore faut-il que les militants trouvent les moyens de passer de la technologie pour rallier les masses à l'utiliser pour changer le pouvoir.
Aurialie Jublin

Amazon's Turkers Kick Off the First Crowdsourced Labor Guild - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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shared by Aurialie Jublin on 05 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • “[On Mechanical Turk], there’s no way to take coordinated action, because there’s no core,” Bernstein told The Daily Beast. “The set of employees on Mechanical Turk changes day to day,” he explained, and so strikes and protests—which may work for other crowd labor platforms like Uber—fail.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 05 Feb 15
     
    "Crowd labor platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk operate with few rules and little protection for workers. But a new movement might change the landscape."
Aurialie Jublin

What Does A Union Look Like In The Gig Economy? | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views

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shared by Aurialie Jublin on 20 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Drivers who work on Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar have started "App-Based Drivers Associations" in at least two states. The California branch teamed up with local Teamsters in August for "organizational and lobbying assistance," and in September, after Uber drivers in New York created a Facebook Page called Uber Drivers Network NYC, some of them went on strike over Uber fare cuts.
  • Like it or not, employment in the United States looks different than it did 50 years ago—at least 30% of the workforce are independent contractors, the ratio of part-time workers to full-time workers is still higher than before the recession, and there are 2.87 million temporary workers, a record number. Some argue that the gig economy—comprised of companies like Uber, TaskRabbit, Postmates, and Handy, who coordinate independent contractors on a task-by-task basis instead of hiring employees—is a promising development in this conundrum. It offers flexible supplemental income the regular economy is not supplying. Others argue it’s a return to the piecework system that exploited workers before the modern concept of "employee" came on the scene.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 20 Feb 15
     
    "WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO UNIONIZE, GIG ECONOMY WORKERS RISK EXPLOITATION. BUT ORGANIZING 21RST CENTURY WORKERS IS NO EASY FEAT."
Aurialie Jublin

A New Approach to Aid: How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village - SPIEGEL ON... - 0 views

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shared by Aurialie Jublin on 25 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • The idea is simple: The payment of a basic monthly income, funded with tax revenues, of 100 Namibia dollars, or about €9 ($13), for each citizen. There are no conditions, and nothing is expected in return. The money comes from various organizations, including AIDS foundations, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Protestant churches in Germany's Rhineland and Westphalia regions. The organizers of the trial want to know what their subjects will do with the 100 Namibian dollars, whether they will invest the money or waste it on drink, and whether it will deter them from working or motivate them to work harder. Most of all, they want to know if it alleviates poverty.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 25 Jul 14
     
    "It sounds like a communist utopia, but a basic income program pioneered by German aid workers has helped alleviate poverty in a Nambian village. Crime is down and children can finally attend school. Only the local white farmers are unhappy."
Thierry Nabeth

L'ère du bullshit, Opinion -- Jean-Charles Simon - 0 views

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  • Thierry Nabeth on 23 Feb 16
     
    Le conflit entre taxis et VTC a atteint un stade hallucinatoire. Ces derniers jours, des chauffeurs, leurs sociétés d'exploitation et des plateformes comme Uber ont lancé un mouvement de protestation... contre l'application d'une loi ! ... Au nom de « l'innovation numérique », de la « tech » portée en étendard à tout bout de champ, il faudrait accepter de prendre toutes les vessies pour des lanternes. Et tolérer tout et n'importe quoi du moment que ça viendrait du camp des innovants et des modernes - autoproclamés, cela va de soi. ... - Premier bobard : l'innovation technologique serait au cœur de la révolution que nous vivons. - Deuxième intox : les nouvelles plateformes numériques seraient un fabuleux gisement de richesses et d'emplois. - Troisième canular : il faut à tout prix encourager l'innovation et l'emploi, donc il est normal d'appliquer des règles plus souples à cette nouvelle économie. - Quatrième blague : peu importe, « l'uberisation » est en marche et elle emportera tout sur son passage, inutile de résister !
Aurialie Jublin

Apploitation in a city of instaserfs | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - 0 views

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shared by Aurialie Jublin on 24 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • I signed up for as many sharing economy jobs as I could, but they’re not really jobs. I was never an employee; I was a “partner,” or a “hero” or even a “ninja” depending on the app. Sharing economy companies are just middlemen, connecting independent contractors to customers. When I signed up to work with (not for) these apps, I was essentially starting my own ride-sharing/courier business.
  • We do still have a boss. It just isn’t a person. It’s an algorithm.
  • The standard ride-sharing or courier app’s business model looks something like this:  When introducing your app into a new city, take heavy losses by over-paying drivers and under-charging customers. Offer drivers cash bonuses to get their friends to sign up. Once you’ve got a steady supply of drivers invested in the app, start lowering their pay. 
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  • The idea is to reward loyalty and prevent drivers from having Uber and Lyft open at the same time. The thing is, if you’re working 40 or 50 hours a week with one company, that looks a lot less like a gig and a lot more like full-time employment.
  • In Los Angeles, September 2014, a group of Lyft drivers burned their pink mustaches in protest of the pay cuts. These kinds of actions aren’t very common because most of us don’t know our co-workers and there is no physical location to congregate. Lyft doesn’t allow their drivers at the head office. The main place for “sharing economy” workers to connect is through online forums and Facebook groups
  • Yes, people have been kicked off Postmates for complaining. I’ve talked to them. And yes, the official Postmates courier group on Facebook is censored to erase anything that could be perceived as a complaint. But more importantly it’s clear that Postmates is not preparing its workers for the realities of life as an independent contractor. Many are shocked about how much they have to pay in taxes and how little they’re making doing the work. There are plenty of screenshots showing that some are making less than minimum wage.
  • I ended up having to take on all kinds of little expenses like these. It’s part of the risk of starting your own business. That time, I just had to buy a $3 froyo but it can be a lot worse (parking tickets in San Francisco can be over $80). Oftentimes you have to choose between parking illegally or being late with an order.
  • All the risk falls onto the worker and the company is free of liability—despite the placard being an explicit suggestion that it’s okay to break the law if that’s what you’ve got to do to get the order done on time. 
  • Postmates responded by “updating” the app to a “blind system” in which we could still accept or reject jobs, but without enough information to determine whether it would be worth our time or not (e.g., a huge grocery store order). To make sure we accept jobs quickly without analyzing them, the app plays an extremely loud and annoying beeping noise designed specifically to harass couriers into submitting to the algorithm.
  • One of the best companies I worked for is called Washio. I picked up dirty laundry and delivered clean laundry. It was the best paying and least stressful of all the apps I worked with that month because there was no illusion of choice. Washio tells you exactly what to do and you do it. It is simple and honest. But it also betrays the spirit of the independent contractor, and that’s important for a number of reasons.
  • Plenty of people requested that I drop off their food at the door. Customers grow to love apps that make the worker anonymous. That way, you don’t have to feel guilty about having servants.
  • Aurialie Jublin on 24 Aug 16
     
    L'auteur de l'article parle de son expérience du "travail" via l'économie des plateforme.
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