Although companies like Deliveroo or Foodora refuse even to recognise them as employees, food delivery riders have taken a lead in organising workers in the European gig economy. Following an extensive overview of different European initiatives in mobilising food delivery workers Jacobin authors argue that the riders’ visibility and recognisability allows many precarious workers, whose mechanisms of exploitation and subordination are far less visible, to identify with them thus empowering them as well.
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