Does the experience of platform delivery workers mobilising to establish works councils at their companies in Germany give us a new way of looking at how unions are working among the platform delivery workers in India? Does the role of strikes and work stoppages by delivery workers in India give us a new way of looking at how delivery workers are organising in Germany?
Apart from featuring interviews with delivery worker activists and trade union activists in India and in Germany, and the stories of their activism during the Covid years of 2020, 2021 and 2022, the Delivery Charge podcast explores themes such as the role of the works council under Germany's labour law, resistance to algorithmic management, the impact of the pandemic on delivery work, and forms of control in location-based platform work. You can listen to Eva Kocher, Uma Rani, Balaji Parthasarathy, Noopur Raval, Sarrah Kassem, Antonio Aloisi, Tatiana Lopez, Oguz Alyanak, Denis Neumann and other scholars of platform work and labour relations in the platform economy.
The Delivery Charge podcast is supported by the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP), which is an Indo-German research collaboration funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is hosted by Aju John, a lawyer and organiser and the founder of Nagrik Open Civic Learning. It will be available on all podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. Just search for Delivery Charge on any of these apps and you should find this podcast feed. Subscribe to the feed so that you are notified when the first episode releases.
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