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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    Advancing 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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