Precariousness and surveillance: digital platforms, ever richer thanks to Europe’s poorest regions

Technology permeates our everyday lives. It creates new job opportunities but also new traps that perpetuate the precarious conditions of the most vulnerable workers.Read the full article

By María Crespo

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