scholarly journals Transport Platform Workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-51
Author(s):  
Jamie Woodcock
Keyword(s):  
Food Delivery ◽  
Global Network ◽  
International Networks ◽  
Class Composition ◽  
Transport Workers ◽  
Run Up

‘Transport Platform Workers’ focuses on the struggles of transport workers on platforms. It discusses food delivery workers, starting with the strikes of Deliveroo riders in London in 2016. This draws on the longest-running project that has contributed to the book. The dynamics of these struggles are analysed through the framework of class composition, unpicking the changing technical, social, and political composition of this work. It then moves through examples of subsequent waves of strikes across Europe, as well as the formation of the Transnational Couriers Federation. This analysis is then developed through an increasingly global network of food delivery driver organisations (including both unions and networks), reflecting on the successes and limitations of different models of resistance and organisation that drivers are experimenting with. The chapter then moves on to discuss private hire drivers, highlighting the coordinated strikes and protests in the run-up to Uber’s IPO. These went beyond the coordination of days of action or alignment of strikes, leading to the formation of international networks.

Struggles of Delivery Workers in Brazil: Working Conditions and Collective Organization during the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ludmila Costhek Abilio ◽  
Rafael Grohmann ◽  
Henrique Chevrand Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Class Composition ◽  
New Type ◽  
And Control

Abstract This article aims to analyze food delivery workers’ working conditions and ongoing collective organization during the pandemic in Brazil. The discussion involves historical analysis, based on empirical research carried out with delivery couriers over the past eight years in Brazil and on analysis of the delivery workers’ strikes in July of 2020. Our view is that their work is subsumed to a new type of work organization, management and control, defined here as uberization. Recent investigation shows that their working conditions are worsening during the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of reduced working hour value alongside unchangingly long workdays. These conditions have been met by platform workers’ collective organizations demanding better working conditions. Our findings indicate an ongoing political struggle involving different institutions, and the central role of communication between workers through digital platforms as the first form of organization. From the class composition framework, we understand that there is a germ for political composition involving Brazilian riders, in line with the circulation of workers’ struggles around the world, especially in Latin America.

Indymedia (r)evolution: The global network & rise of one Indymedia center

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Meinrath ◽  
M. Lehman ◽  
T. Steinlage ◽  
B. Hagy
Keyword(s):  
Global Network

Wave Run-Up on a Simulated Beach

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Sutherland ◽  
J. N. Sharma ◽  
O.H. Shemdin
Keyword(s):  
Run Up

A Survey on Internet of Things : Applications and Layered Wise Security Issues

2019 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Uppuluri Sirisha ◽  
G. Lakshme Eswari
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Data Points

This paper briefly introduces Internet of Things(IOT) as a intellectual connectivity among the physical objects or devices which are gaining massive increase in the fields like efficiency, quality of life and business growth. IOT is a global network which is interconnecting around 46 million smart meters in U.S. alone with 1.1 billion data points per day[1]. The total installation base of IOT connecting devices would increase to 75.44 billion globally by 2025 with a increase in growth in business, productivity, government efficiency, lifestyle, etc., This paper familiarizes the serious concern such as effective security and privacy to ensure exact and accurate confidentiality, integrity, authentication access control among the devices.

The Alliance between Fundamentalist Christians and the Pro-Israel Lobby: Christian Zionism in US Middle East Policy

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-187
Author(s):  
Donald E. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Conservative Movement ◽  
International Media ◽  
Christian Zionism ◽  
The Us ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Middle East Policy ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Political Scene

It is a common assumption in the international media that the fundamentalist Christian Right suddenly appeared on the US political scene following the 11 September 2001 tragedy, and that it became a major force in shaping US policy in the Middle East. While it is true that fundamentalist Christians have exercised considerable influence during the George W. Bush administration, their ascendance is neither new nor surprising. The movement has demonstrated political influence in the US and England intermittently for more than a hundred years, particularly in the formation of Middle East policy. This article focuses on the unique theology and historical development of Christian Zionism, noting its essential beliefs, its emergence in England during the nineteenth century, and how it grew to gain prominence in the US. The alliance of the pro-Israel lobby, the neo-conservative movement, and several Christian Zionist organizations in the US represents a formidable source of support for the more maximalist views of Israel's Likud Party. In the run-up to the 2004 US presidential elections this alliance could potentially thwart any progress on an Israeli–Palestinian peace plan in the near future. Moreover, Likud ideology is increasingly evident in US Middle East policy as a result of this alliance.

Skenario Tsunami Menggunakan Data Parameter Gempabumi Berdasarkan Kondisi Batimetri (Studi Kasus : Gempabumi Maluku 28 Januari 2004 )

Jurnal Segara ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robby Wallansha ◽  
Wiko Setyonegoro
Keyword(s):  
Run Up

Maluku merupakan salah satu daerah di timur Indonesia yang memiliki potensi tsunami yang cukup tinggi, ini dibuktikan dengan lebih dari 25 kejadian tsunami yang terekam di daerah Maluku dari tahun 1629 – 2006 (katalog database tsunami online Gusiakov (2005), Puspito (2007) dan Katalog Gempa Merusak dan Tsunami BMKG), tsunami yang terbesar terjadi pada tanggal 17 Pebruari 1674 yang menewaskan lebih dari 2900 orang dengan run-up hingga mencapai 80 meter dan menghancurkan kota Ambon dan juga pada tanggal 12 Oktober 1899 yang menenggelamkan kota Amahai di Pulau Seram dengan korban tewas mencapai 4000 orang. Oleh karena itu perlu dilakukan pembuatan skenario tsunami untuk mendapatkan kemungkinan tinggi run-up yang bersumber di daerah perairan Maluku dengan menggunakan software Tsunami L-2008. Berdasarkan Katalog Gempabumi Signifikan dan Merusak 1821 – 2009 yang dikeluarkan BMKG, bahwa pada tanggal 28 Januari 2004 telah terjadi gempabumi di Maluku mengakibatkan tsunami yang terobservasi di Namlea, dengan epicenter 3,110 LS – 127,300 BT dengan kekuatan Mw = 6,6 SR. Dalam pembuatan skenario tsunami dalam penelitian ini dengan merubah nilai magnituda gempabumi (Mw=7,0 SR, Mw=7,5 SR. Mw=8,0 SR) berdasarkan referensi setelah itu menggunakan hubungan rumusan empiris dari Hanks and Kanamori untuk mendapatkan nilai slip (m) sekaligus membuat beberapa kombinasi skenario tsunamidengan mempertahankan nilai momen seismik dan merubah nilai luas fault dan slip (m), untuk momen seismik didapatkan berdasarkan rumusan empiris dari Wells and Coppersmith (1994) sedangkan untuk luas fault berdasarkan rumusan empiris dari  Papazachos et al (2004) dengan mengasumsikan bahwa luas fault berbentuk persegi panjang. Dari sebelas skenario tsunami yang dibuat dari setiap magnituda gempabumi diperoleh tinggi run-up tertinggi untuk Mw=7,0 SR yaitu dengan tinggi 0,59 m di daerah Huamual sedangkan terendah di daerah Latuhalat dengan tinggi run-up 0,09 m, untuk Mw = 7,5 SR diperoleh tinggi run-up tertinggi mencapai 2,73 m di Huamual dan terendah 0,36 di Latuhalat, dan untuk Mw = 8,0 SR didapatkan tinggi run-up tertinggi hingga 8,19 m di Huamual dan terendah di Latuhalat dengan tinggi run-up 0,94 m.

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