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Amit Gupta and Vidhi Goel
Should Competition Commission Seize Online Discounts?
03 Nov 2019
Amazon and Flipkart are just two in the long list of e-commerce websites selling everything and anything under the sun and offering discounts to attract consumers.
Newsclick Team
Role of Capital and Labour in the Digital Economy
26 Sep 2019
Taking the example of cab-hailing app Uber, Parminder Jeet Singh says that we will need to go to the heart of what a digital economy is and the role of capital and workers in it if we are to really…
Newsclick Report
3000 Ola, Uber Drivers to Go on Strike in Bengaluru on September 30
26 Sep 2019
Namma Chalakka Trade Union is demanding that the Karnataka government allow drivers to install digital metres—similar to that of Mumbai’s black and yellow taxis.
Peoples Dispatch
California’s Labor Law Regularizing Gig Economy Workers Could Set a Global Precedent
21 Sep 2019
The legislation is the first of its kind and will likely force app-based corporates like Uber to reclassify their workers as employees rather than as contractors
Newsclick Team
What Are the Implications of India's Economic Crisis?
14 Sep 2019
Any process of economic growth or transformation is not good enough unless it has adequate employment as one of its central objectives.
Ranjini Basu
Economic Slump: Busting Official Myths on Consumer Preferences
14 Sep 2019
Data confirms an acute demand crisis in rural India and beyond.
Prabir Purkayastha
The Big Decline: Sales of Biscuits, Briefs and Bikes Have All Dropped
13 Sep 2019
Economists and business heads are wondering if it’s time to use the dreaded R-word: Recession.
Jai Vipra
What’s up with Libra? Everything That Should Concern Us About Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
02 Jul 2019
The central problem with Libra is not that it is not decentralized; it is that it is not accountable to all the people that it will affect.
Prabir Purkayastha
Global Capital, Digital Monopolies and New Forms of Enclosure
15 Jun 2019
The sharing economy is the enclosure of personal property by digital monopolies and creating a new form of casual labour.
Newsclick Report
Ola, Uber, Foodpanda are Some of the Worst Employers, Finds Study
02 Apr 2019
Twelve of India’s most successful technology-based startups were ranked on the overall working conditions for their drivers and delivery persons. The results indicate they do not care much about…