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DESCRIPTION:Uber’s expansion of its San Francisco headquarters into the old Sears 
 building and other properties in downtown Oakland is part of the havoc tech 
 companies are wreaking as high rents displace Oakland’s poor and minority 
 communities. An issue at the center of capitalism’s economic crisis is 
 tech’s direct inhumanity toward labor. A recent strike of UberEats 
 delivery workers in London revealed a new solidarity among so-called 
 independent contractors against the computer algorithm that controls their 
 working conditions and is bleeding them dry. Workers striking under the 
 banner “We are people, not Uber’s tools!” found each other. They 
 united against speed-up hailed by business as a new form of Taylorism. 
 \nFor Karl Marx, the revolutionary opposite to capitalism was found in 
 labor’s struggle to be human. Humanism re-emerged in rank-and-file 
 workers’ strikes since the introduction of automation in the post-WWII 
 economy. Bay Area Uber drivers have challenged their treatment as 
 contractors, even as Uber, along with the tech world, is out to displace 
 drivers altogether. The fight against capitalism’s dominance over living 
 labor helps show a new direction out of the totality of the present crises, 
 including growing permanent unemployment. How does labor’s struggle today 
 resonate with Marx’s multi-faceted humanism in contrast to how fascism is 
 now being disgorged in the racist and sexist dehumanization of the "other" 
 that is rampant in this election?\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/05/18791948.php
SUMMARY:The algorithm Uber alles: The humanism of labor vs. Uber and the new gig economy
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave.\nOakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/05/18791948.php
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