Who's the Fairest documents the surprise ending to this season: the wave of protests by beauty care workers in India in late December 2021.  We talk to a journalist who covered the protests about how the women found each other, why they organized, an

We've learned that platforms have lots of data about workers, and use it to squeeze out more and more work.  But what if all that data was put to use on behalf of workers instead?  In Turning the Tables we continue to explore what happens when y

Given all we had heard about the gig economy we were skeptical there could be an ethical business model.  In The Company You Keep, one businessperson set out to convince us that better alternatives are possible.  We explore how, if we keep human

In Permanent Wave, we go to India and Thailand to talk about all the forms of intimate personal care services that take place in people's homes.  Our guests Khawla Zainab from IT for Change (India) and Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn from JELI (Thailand)

In Servants to Technology we fast forward from past to future, speaking  with two technologists, one based in New York and the other in  Barcelona, Spain about how new technologies are affecting the future of  work in the care sector. &nbsp

In The Worlds Oldest Profession, we learn more about what domestic and care work is, and its roots in exploitation and slavery.  We meet organizers in South Africa and Hong Kong and we talk to the former US Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Trafficki

The Gig:  Who Cares? connects the future of work to the world's oldest jobs: domestic and care work.  Its work that has been necessary ever since the rise of complex societies - but that has a long history of being performed by slaves.  Wh

It was hard enough for app-based drivers to find one another and organize even without a global pandemic. Gig workers are inherently isolated and yet they were finding each other not only in their cities but around the world. How were they doing it? And h

Meet drivers around the world who have been taking action to take control of their lives back from Uber and other ride-hailing apps in Season 1 of The Gig. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegig-podcast/support