Taken for a Ride: The Uber Files Explained

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🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Uber has transformed how we travel around cities – what do newly leaked documents tell us about its meteoric rise? The explosive ‘Uber Files’ give an insight into the tactics the taxi giant used to become a household name. Justin Quirk unpacks what these reveal with lecturer Dr. Jimena Valdez, who is working on the project Über-State: The Political Economy of Platform Capitalism. “The three most striking things are: the utter disregard for the law, the connections to political power, and the very little value they attach to drivers - that they call them ‘supply’.” "Suddenly, we feel like we can't live without our Ubers." "Uber has become this tag for everything that is wrong, but it's tech companies more widely." "Politicians and consumers thought that Uber was so cool, that it should be treated differently." “This is part of the servant economy.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Justin Quirk. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic, Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Jade Bailey. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.1	trove of 124,000 emails, text messages and internal comms which revealed the
1:18.9	internal workings of the disruptive ride-hanging app during its most aggressive period of expansion from 2013-2017.
1:26.6	What was in the Uber Leaks?
1:28.2	How out of control are the world's biggest companies and what lessons can we learn from them
1:32.4	about restraining the tech companies which frequently seem to operate outside of the law.
1:37.0	Joining me in the bunker to discuss all this is Dr Jimine Valdez, a lecturer at the Department of International Politics at City, University of London.
1:44.4	Dr Valdez studies the organisation of capital and labour and her research focus on what
1:48.3	business and workers want and how do they get that. Thank you for joining us in the bunker Dr. Valdez.
1:53.4	Thank you for invitation.
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