They really love doing food delivery.

It's not a bad gig until something goes wrong.

Once you've had an accident, once you've been deactivated without reason, once a pandemic hits, that's when you start to not enjoy it. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Tyler Reordin.

Tyler is a PhD candidate in hospitality and anthropology at the University of Queensland.

And over the past year, he has been doing ethnographic research with

temporary migrant gig workers in Brisbane, Australia, and riding along with them as they, you know,

make their deliveries, wait for new jobs, and kind of just, you know, go about their day-to-day

activities. So Tyler and I talked about recent developments in Australia, but also talked about some of

the insights that he gained by doing that research, by spending time with those workers, and what the

future of the gig economy in Australia might look like. I think that there is an interesting

conversation here about migrants and, you know, migrants who work in the gig economy and what is going to

work for them necessarily versus, you know, some of the things that we often discuss around

employment rights and things like that. Especially when you think back to last week's episode with

Vina DuBal, where we talked about the large percentage of people of color and immigrants who work in the gig economy in the United

States and how that helps to kind of justify their exclusion from employment rights and their

earning of lower wages. And so, you know, obviously I support the fight for employment rights

for gig workers to improve the conditions of gig workers naturally. But I think that,

you know, part of what comes out in the conversation with Tyler is how we also need to consider,

you know, what the effects of those would be on some of these temporary migrant workers.

And even, you know, this will come up in a future conversation that I have as well. But what

that also means for, you know, undocumented

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