At The Mercy Of An App: Workers Feel The Instacart Squeeze - Incite at Columbia University
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At The Mercy Of An App: Workers Feel The Instacart Squeeze
- Led by Columbia Labor Lab
- Published November 25, 2019
- Authors Alina Selyukh Kathleen Griesbach
- Category Archive
- Forum NPR, All Things Considered
- Link www.npr.org
Kathleen Griesbach, PhD student in Sociology and an Incite graduate fellow, was interviewed for NPR’s All Things Considered.
She discussed research from Incite's Grocery Delivery Workers Project, including a recently published paper on the “algorithmic despotism” that the Instacart app imposes on its workers.
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Grocery Delivery Workers ProjectAdvancing understandings of the grocery delivery workforce using sales data, worker reviews, surveys, and interviews. Funded by United Food and Commercial Workers
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