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How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers

• ggm 3y ago
  ... and turned out to get the same exploitative outcome of a constant stream of cheap labour, penalised by charges and percentage traps and upsells. And when the women fought back and unionised, they used legal tricks until the PR stink got too big. But, gig workers depend on the gigs coming. They can (and do) always cut the hours of recalcitrant players. It's not an entirely happy story. Worth reading, to the end.