In March 2025, WageIndicator will host its next webinar in the Gig Economy and Platform Work series, focusing on 'Ghost-Workers.' Do you know who powers your AI?
Date: 28th March, 2025
Time: 3 - 4:30 PM CET
Events
WageIndicator - The Ghost Workers: Do You Know Who's Behind Your AI? March 28, 2025
Fairwork - 2024 Italy Report Launch - October 30, 2024
On October 30, starting at 9:30 a.m., the Inapp Auditorium will host a conference to present and discuss the findings of the Fairwork Italy 2024 Report. This event is organized by Inapp in collaboration with Fairwork, the Department of Social and Economic Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, and the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.
The Report assesses working conditions and job quality across digital platforms, focusing on five core principles of fair work: fair pay, safe working conditions, equitable contracts, structured work processes, and adequate worker representation. Conducted across 39 international contexts with a broad network of researchers and partner institutions, Fairwork's research on platform economics and AI seeks to support decent work standards and protections for all platform workers.
Location: Inapp Auditorium, Rome
Date and Time: October 30, 2024 | 9.30 AM - 1.30 PM CET
WageIndicator - No Such Thing as a Free Coffee: On Unpaid Work in the Gig Economy and Possible Solutions - October 29, 2024
The advent of digital labour platforms requires researchers, civil society organizations, and policymakers to question the impact of this new mode of labour on workers’ livelihoods and the quality of their jobs.
A major challenge posed by this new mode of work is the amount of unpaid labour that platform workers are required to perform as part of their work.
This webinar offers scope to discuss the forms and underpinning conditions of unpaid labour in the platform economy, as these represent a crucial element in the way that working lives are precarious under platform labour regimes.
Lastly, in the good practices section, we present some solutions on how to reduce the proportion of unpaid work.
- Location: Zoom
- Date and time: October 29, 2024 | 3 PM - 4.30 PM CET
WageIndicator - XXIV World Congress - The Quest For Labour Rights And Social Justice 17-20 September, 2024
The XXIV World Congress - The Quest For Labour Rights And Social Justice will run from 17 to 20 September 2024 at the Ennio Morricone Auditorium Parcodella Musica in Rome, Italy.
WageIndicator will be presenting at four sessions: Is there Really a Race to the Bottom? Exploring trends through the lens of the Labour Rights Index; Towards Fair Compensation: Exploring Decent Wage models within the framework of EU Directives, SDGs and UN Guiding Principles; Collective Bargaining practices on AI and Algorithmic Management in European Services Sectors; Fairness in Flux: Navigating the Gig Economy through Regulatory Innovations and New Tools for Fair Pay.
UPCOMING - Fairwork - Feeding the Machine London Launch - July 23, 2024
Join the authors of Feeding the Machine, a new book that tells the story of a global technology through the eyes of the people who produce it. James Muldoon, Mark Graham, and Callum Cant will be at Pelican House in London on July 23 at 6 pm for a discussion about the army of underpaid and exploited workers powering artificial intelligence (AI).
Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions labouring under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. This book presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network that maintains this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI.
Location: London
Date and time: July 23, 2024, 18:00 BST
UPCOMING - Fairwork - Feeding the Machine Online Launch - July 18, 2024
Join authors James Muldoon, Mark Graham, and Callum Cant for the online edition of the launch of their new book "Feeding the Machine". The book tells the story of the army of underpaid and exploited workers powering artificial intelligence (AI).
Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork over more than a decade, Feeding the Machine describes the lives of the workers deliberately concealed from view, and the power structures that determine their future. It gives voice to the people whom AI exploits, from accomplished writers and artists to the armies of data annotators, content moderators and warehouse workers, revealing how their dangerous, low-paid labor is connected to longer histories of gendered, racialized, and colonial exploitation.
Location: Zoom
Date and time: July 18, 2024, 16:00 BST
A forthcoming report by Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and Oxford University will offer insight into the best and worst practices in the Spanish gig economy. Join researchers, union leaders and government representatives for the launch of the first-ever set of Fairwork ratings for platform companies in Spain.
The report launch event, titled “The future is now: AI, platforms and the world of work”, will take place on Thursday, June 13 at 10:00 CEST in Madrid, Spain (Calle de Fernández de la Hoz, 12) and will also be available to stream online.
Location: Madrid
Date and Time: June 13, 2024 - 10:00 CEST
Fairwork Amazon Report 2024: How is AI Transforming the Warehouse Sector?
Technologies like AI and robotics are meant to improve efficiency and allow for the ever-faster delivery of consumer goods from Amazon warehouses; but at what cost?
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford researchers Funda Ustek Spilda, Lola Brittain, and Callum Cant will be on LinkedIn live on June 5th at noon BST to take your questions in this discussion about the human impacts of the ever-faster delivery of consumer goods that is driving automation within and across Amazon UK’s vastly complex supply chain.
- Location: LinkedIn
- Date and time: June 5, 2024, 1:45 PM (your local time)
Much of the labour market in the Global South is mediated by digital platforms.
To gain a better understanding of the differences in opportunities and challenges between this context and the Global North, WageIndicator will host a new webinar on gig work on Friday, 22 March 2024, 11.30 am - 1.30 pm CET.
From a typical Western perspective, the paradigm shift from traditional to platform-based jobs would only lead to high levels of informality and low levels of institutionalisation. But there is more than that.
Zooming in on specific contexts in the Global South and broadening the debate is a must in order to get a complete picture of the phenomenon, which is what this webinar aims to do.
- Location: Zoom
- Date: March 22, 2024
Ride-hailing drivers, delivery couriers, and freelance contractors, frequently face challenges related to low pay, lack of benefits, and job insecurity.
Since 2014, the WageIndicator Foundation has been providing Living Wage estimates for wage-earners based on its cost of living database, currently covering 164 countries.
Now, in partnership with GIZ, the Centre for Labour Research, and WageIndicator teams in Kenya and Indonesia, WageIndicator is launching the Living Tariff tool to help gig workers accurately assess their wage requirements.
- Location: Zoom
- Date and time: November 30, 2023 | 2 pm CET
How can a level playing field be created in the platform economy, for example through collective bargaining, worker representation, alternative ownership and governance and similar solutions?
In this webinar, we want to explore the exact problem and analyze the different strategies to give workers their negotiation power back and let them build a collective voice. We also want to search for best practises of initiatives and individuals worldwide that are successfully working in the gig economy with this purpose. To conclude with a roadmap to a gig economy that works for all.
- Location: Zoom
- Date and time: October 27, 2023 | 2 pm - 3.30 pm CEST
The Fairwork Cloudwork report 2023 evaluates the working conditions of 15 web-based platforms providing services related to microwork and online freelancing. It finds that online work platforms are still far from safeguarding basic standards of decent work.
During the event, Fairwork Director, Prof Mark Graham, and the report's lead researcher, Dr Jonas Valente, presented the main findings.
Fairwork Report Launch: Gender and Platform Work - JULY 3, 2023
How can companies make gig work safer and more accessible for women and gender minorities?
During the launch of Fairwork's first global 'Gender and Platform Work' report, researchers shared the report's findings and demonstrate how the project’s research fits into wider discussions around feminist development policy and the future of work.
Fairwork’s 'Gender and Platform Work' report is based on research into working conditions which spans 4 years, 38 countries, over 180 unique platforms, and interviews with more than 5000 platform workers.
This session of 'Women in Gig Work' revolved around women's experiences in online web-based platforms. Can platform work be a source of decent work for women around the world? Or conversely, does platform work replicate or even amplify the gender inequalities found in the traditional offline labor markets?
This webinar focused on female domestic workers' opportunities and challenges on digital platforms.WageIndicator invited a pool of high-profile speakers who shared their research and practical solutions.
The most actual topics around payment in the world of platforms: algorithms and data transparency, real pay and minimum wages, living hourly rates for freelancers, the gender pay gap, fair pay principles.
This webinar deepened the impact that platform economy has both on physical migrations and telemigration (alias “telecommuting from abroad”: digital workers with the opportunity to work with companies and customers from anywhere in the world).
What has been the real impact of approved and deployed regulations? Are there better alternatives to traditional regulation? A follow-up of our previously organized ‘Gig Economy Around the World’ event.
Learn more about 'Theory & Practice in the Global World of Platforms'
WageIndicator presented the results of ‘Decent Rights & Pay in the Gig Economy’ project: more than 3,000 surveys collected among the gig workers around the world.
Check 'Gig Conference' Program and Results