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Being exploited and breaching your visa: the limited choices of the food delivery worker

  • Written by Caleb Goods, Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, University of Western Australia
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Some of the most vulnerable workers in the Australian labour market are squeezed between a rock and a hard place.

You can never do your homework, you are so tired and you just think about how to cook the next meal and sleeping, that is your life.

This international student, also works as a food delivery worker. He’s a gig worker, which means...

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