Spain’s Rider Law at the Twentieth Historical Materialism Conference

13 November 2023 By

On 9 November 2023, the University of Barcelona’s INCA teams gave a presentation at the Twentieth Historical Materialism Conference at SOAS (London). The title of the Conference was “The Cost of Life Oppression, Exploitation and Struggle in the Time of Monsters”, and Ignacio Elpidio Domínguez Ruiz presented a talk entitled “Legitimising Casual Labour Relationships under Algocratic Governance: the case of Spain’s ‘Rider Law'”. The presentation analysed Spain’s 2021 so-called Rider Law from the perspective of algocratic governance and platform capitalism.