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Katie J. Wells
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i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer @ georgetown. NEW BOOK: DISRUPTING D.C. katiejwells.net
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<3 this review in the Washington History Journal: "Data driven w/ telling first-person accounts, this study spotlights the political influence tech industry power players wield to reshape major US cities."

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this is very much what worries me: "The new legislation would...limit local governments' ability to demand data from the rideshare companies. 'Pre-empting' Minneapolis' ordinance had emerged as Uber and Lyft's TOP PRIORITY as negotiations progressed." www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

What's in the deal that got Uber to stay
What's in the deal that got Uber to stay

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I've spent the last 7 months interviewing app-based caregivers for rival platforms. What scares me the most? The willingness of federal insurance programs to pay for these exploitative schemas. www.today.com/health/news/...

EXCLUSIVE: Uber has a new product designed to help caregivers. How does it work?
EXCLUSIVE: Uber has a new product designed to help caregivers. How does it work?

The new feature, Uber Caregiver, can help get loved ones to doctor's appointments by tapping into health insurance benefits.

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hi eileen - no wonder. i wasn't clear. i was finding it hypocritical (and depressing) that a university with such a rich labor history (much of it student led) on things like living wages would succumb to recommending uber --- which is anti- any labor standards --- for faculty and staff.

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incredible legacy. thanks for sharing, joshua.

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I remember this hunger strike like it was yesterday. And often cite it as one of the most highly-calibrated, savvy organizing campaigns I’ve ever seen. Which makes this development particularly enraging.

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oh i'm still grateful for your work. this is just a side note. a good foil to remember what it was all for.

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"The 2008 crisis [was]... a temporal break with 20th C property relations that centered the individual (white) homeowner... Institutional rentiers of the 21st C...portend diminishing economic certainty associated with whiteness." -@desireefields.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Digital Experiments with Landed Property: Robots, Race, and Rent
Digital Experiments with Landed Property: Robots, Race, and Rent

A wide range of digital innovations has changed property relations globally over the past fifteen years. What are we to make of these digital experiments with landed property? I argue we should not m....

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Katie J. Wells
@katiejwells.bsky.social
i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer @ georgetown. NEW BOOK: DISRUPTING D.C. katiejwells.net
475 followers206 following154 posts