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Uber might not take over the world, but it is still normalising job insecurity

  • Written by Peter Fleming, Professor, University of Technology Sydney
Uber might not take over the world, but it is still normalising job insecurity

The effective exclusion of Uber from London, one of the digital platform’s most lucrative markets, adds to a small but significant list of places putting up roadblocks to “uberisation”.

Governments in Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Hungary and Australia’s Northern Territory have all made conditions hostile to Uber. There are...

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