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The City Is Ours, Not Uber’s
Uber and Lyft drivers have called a one-day strike on the day of Uber’s initial public offering. But their strike is about more than fighting the exploitation of the “sharing economy” — it’s about a right to the city.
Andrew Wolf is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies worker organizing in the gig economy.
Uber and Lyft drivers have called a one-day strike on the day of Uber’s initial public offering. But their strike is about more than fighting the exploitation of the “sharing economy” — it’s about a right to the city.