Tyler Riordan
@tylerriordan.bsky.social
Workforce researcher who specialises in ethnographic methods, hospitality, & the platform economy
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Tyler Riordan
@tylerriordan.bsky.social
· Nov 15
My research with #FoodDelivery workers shows how human relationships are changing as interactions are mediated through digital technologies, physical objects, & workers' bodies. I provide 3 examples from my Hospitality & Society article. 1/5
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"rates of e-bike theft are rising fast... A recent survey by the Workers’ Observatory, a gig work monitoring group involving workers and researchers from St Andrews and Edinburgh Universities, found that 40 per cent of riders had bikes stolen..."
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Time to stop the rough ride for food delivery workers
Food delivery workers and other ‘platform’ workers are sitting in a dangerous blind spot of British employment law
www.scotsman.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"rates of e-bike theft are rising fast... A recent survey by the Workers’ Observatory, a gig work monitoring group involving workers and researchers from St Andrews and Edinburgh Universities, found that 40 per cent of riders had bikes stolen..."
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www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
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Higher ed workers in australia, the NTEU are looking for stories about how LLMs/"AI" have affected your work and working conditions. Are you spending more time marking, but receiving the same time allocation? Do you have the flexibility/autonomy you need to design appropriate assessment?
August 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Higher ed workers in australia, the NTEU are looking for stories about how LLMs/"AI" have affected your work and working conditions. Are you spending more time marking, but receiving the same time allocation? Do you have the flexibility/autonomy you need to design appropriate assessment?
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Algorithmic Wage Discrimination is spreading beyond 'Gig' work:
Healthcare, Customer Service, & Logistics bosses are buying AI products that set compensation structures & wages using real time data. @wilneida.bsky.social & I did an audit & here are our findings
equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...
Healthcare, Customer Service, & Logistics bosses are buying AI products that set compensation structures & wages using real time data. @wilneida.bsky.social & I did an audit & here are our findings
equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...
How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it
How surveillance pay practices work, where they are increasingly deployed in the U.S. economy, and policy recommendations to ensure pay fairness and transparency.
equitablegrowth.org
August 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Algorithmic Wage Discrimination is spreading beyond 'Gig' work:
Healthcare, Customer Service, & Logistics bosses are buying AI products that set compensation structures & wages using real time data. @wilneida.bsky.social & I did an audit & here are our findings
equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...
Healthcare, Customer Service, & Logistics bosses are buying AI products that set compensation structures & wages using real time data. @wilneida.bsky.social & I did an audit & here are our findings
equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...
Funny how examples like this don't come up in productivity roundtable discussions and media reporting focus on the need to "embrace AI" #auspol
Here’s a giant screw-you to this bank and to the snake-oil peddlers who sold them on miracle AI—that ultimately can’t replace workers.
Wild how yet another AI flop barely makes headlines, while every “AI taking jobs” story blows up everywhere.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Wild how yet another AI flop barely makes headlines, while every “AI taking jobs” story blows up everywhere.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says
Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots.
arstechnica.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Funny how examples like this don't come up in productivity roundtable discussions and media reporting focus on the need to "embrace AI" #auspol
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"Uber's response was simply to cancel the order and offer him a discount on his next order.
News4 reached out to Uber to see if they know anything about where the delivery driver was taken and what the company's policy is when drivers get detained while on the job. Uber has not responded."
News4 reached out to Uber to see if they know anything about where the delivery driver was taken and what the company's policy is when drivers get detained while on the job. Uber has not responded."
A D.C. man says he ordered Uber Eats over the weekend, but his delivery driver was detained by federal agents before he could make that delivery.
‘How far does this go?' Uber Eats driver detained while making delivery in DC
A D.C. man says he ordered Uber Eats over the weekend, but his delivery driver was detained by federal agents before he could make that delivery. Cellphone video captures witnesses trying to help an U...
www.nbcwashington.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Uber's response was simply to cancel the order and offer him a discount on his next order.
News4 reached out to Uber to see if they know anything about where the delivery driver was taken and what the company's policy is when drivers get detained while on the job. Uber has not responded."
News4 reached out to Uber to see if they know anything about where the delivery driver was taken and what the company's policy is when drivers get detained while on the job. Uber has not responded."
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, The Australia Institute, Canberra, Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Job at The Australia Institute in Canberra, Australia
Apply for THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Job in Canberra, Australia with Compensation: $90,000
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August 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, The Australia Institute, Canberra, Australia
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'The food delivery sector is no longer just a site of informal economic survival for precarious migrants' - @nandosigona.bsky.social & @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social on 'a new mode of migration governance' merging algorithmic control and immigration enforcement www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Delivery riders at mercy of algorithms and immigration raids
Migrants denied right to work turn to exploitative delivery apps to earn cash, but the government is cracking down
www.opendemocracy.net
August 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
'The food delivery sector is no longer just a site of informal economic survival for precarious migrants' - @nandosigona.bsky.social & @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social on 'a new mode of migration governance' merging algorithmic control and immigration enforcement www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
On the NZ context
"Rather than preventing the misclassification of workers, the law changes may make it easier. They do little to address the challenges vulnerable contractors face, fail to tackle the structural problems of platform work, & disregard how other countries are modernising their laws."
"Rather than preventing the misclassification of workers, the law changes may make it easier. They do little to address the challenges vulnerable contractors face, fail to tackle the structural problems of platform work, & disregard how other countries are modernising their laws."
Just published on the Conversation a new piece by me with Annick Masselot and Lynne Coker about the government's proposed "gateway test" theconversation.com/contractor-o...
Contractor or employee? How a proposed law change will favour Uber over its drivers
The definition of a contractor will depend on what’s in their contract, not the work they do, putting NZ out of step internationally.
theconversation.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
On the NZ context
"Rather than preventing the misclassification of workers, the law changes may make it easier. They do little to address the challenges vulnerable contractors face, fail to tackle the structural problems of platform work, & disregard how other countries are modernising their laws."
"Rather than preventing the misclassification of workers, the law changes may make it easier. They do little to address the challenges vulnerable contractors face, fail to tackle the structural problems of platform work, & disregard how other countries are modernising their laws."
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Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink!
• August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall
• Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...
• August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall
• Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...
Book Launch, 'The mechanic and the luddite'
Jathan Sadowski in conversation with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill for the launch of 'The Mechanic and the Luddite'.
events.humanitix.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink!
• August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall
• Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...
• August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall
• Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...
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This is a clear sighted analysis of how lacking in substance and recognition of AI risks, the NZ government's new AI strategy is. theconversation.com/nzs-new-ai-s...
NZ’s new AI strategy is long on ‘economic opportunity’ but short on managing ethical and social risk
Most New Zealanders are worried about AI, but the government’s new strategy has little to reassure them. Emulating the EUs approach to managing risk might help.
theconversation.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is a clear sighted analysis of how lacking in substance and recognition of AI risks, the NZ government's new AI strategy is. theconversation.com/nzs-new-ai-s...
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Our Special Issue of WOLG has been published--New Worlds of Logistical Labour: Space, places, technologies, workers
A big thank you to our incredible contributors and co-editors @drtombarnes.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social for making this happen 🎉
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
A big thank you to our incredible contributors and co-editors @drtombarnes.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social for making this happen 🎉
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
July 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Our Special Issue of WOLG has been published--New Worlds of Logistical Labour: Space, places, technologies, workers
A big thank you to our incredible contributors and co-editors @drtombarnes.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social for making this happen 🎉
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
A big thank you to our incredible contributors and co-editors @drtombarnes.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social for making this happen 🎉
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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As you may have noticed, earlier this month I defended my PhD. But what was it about? My topic was algorithmic management. Specifically, I tried to answer the question: How does algorithmic management reshape the employment relationship? (TL;DR – see the picture at the end)
June 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
As you may have noticed, earlier this month I defended my PhD. But what was it about? My topic was algorithmic management. Specifically, I tried to answer the question: How does algorithmic management reshape the employment relationship? (TL;DR – see the picture at the end)
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New - Oxford University research in partnership with @Workerinfox exposes deepening exploitation of Uber drivers by algorithmic pay
www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...
www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...
New Research Exposes Deepening Exploitation of Uber Drivers by Algorithmic Pay
New Research Exposes Deepening Exploitation of Uber Drivers by Algorithmic Pay
www.workerinfoexchange.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
New - Oxford University research in partnership with @Workerinfox exposes deepening exploitation of Uber drivers by algorithmic pay
www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...
www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...
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I’m researching ways that digital technologies in Australia's private rental sector are impacting renters and housing justice.
I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you!
More info and EOI here:
I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you!
More info and EOI here:
The Machine-Readable Renter — Samantha Floreani
Participants needed! Are you a renter in Australia? Have you ever used tech to find and apply for a home, log maintenance, or pay rent? I want to speak with you!
www.samanthafloreani.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I’m researching ways that digital technologies in Australia's private rental sector are impacting renters and housing justice.
I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you!
More info and EOI here:
I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you!
More info and EOI here:
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AI in the Street: Drone Observatory has won the STEAM Award at the New Media Film Festival in LA. Filmed in Logan, QLD, it explores life under drone delivery trials. Created by ADM+S researcher @thaophan.bsky.social & filmmaker Jeni Lee. admscentre.org/43VtZPE
Australian drone documentary wins STEAM Award at New Media Film Festival in LA - ADM+S Centre
AI in the Street: Drone Observatory, a short documentary by Dr Thao Phan and Jeni Lee exploring the lived experience of drone delivery in Logan, Queensland, has won the prestigious STEAM Award at the ...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
AI in the Street: Drone Observatory has won the STEAM Award at the New Media Film Festival in LA. Filmed in Logan, QLD, it explores life under drone delivery trials. Created by ADM+S researcher @thaophan.bsky.social & filmmaker Jeni Lee. admscentre.org/43VtZPE
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Disaster is not the exception; it is the consequence of how we live and reflects the subtle patterns of everyday life. 🌪️
"What’s ‘Natural’ About Disasters? Practice Theory as an Emancipatory Lens for Reconceptualising the Social Construction of Disasters” (👉🏾 ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/jpt/article/...)
"What’s ‘Natural’ About Disasters? Practice Theory as an Emancipatory Lens for Reconceptualising the Social Construction of Disasters” (👉🏾 ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/jpt/article/...)
June 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Disaster is not the exception; it is the consequence of how we live and reflects the subtle patterns of everyday life. 🌪️
"What’s ‘Natural’ About Disasters? Practice Theory as an Emancipatory Lens for Reconceptualising the Social Construction of Disasters” (👉🏾 ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/jpt/article/...)
"What’s ‘Natural’ About Disasters? Practice Theory as an Emancipatory Lens for Reconceptualising the Social Construction of Disasters” (👉🏾 ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/jpt/article/...)
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As one chef put it: ‘Free steak dinners don’t pay my rent or stop my boss docking pay for smoke breaks.’
Free food and beer are common perks for hospitality workers – but are they masking unfairness?
theconversation.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
As one chef put it: ‘Free steak dinners don’t pay my rent or stop my boss docking pay for smoke breaks.’
Back in my #hospo days I used to love a free drink at the end of (or during) a shift. When I became an academic I recognised the benefits that had been taken from me.
Our research discusses how perks like free food & beer mask deeper issues.
Read more here:
theconversation.com/free-food-an...
Our research discusses how perks like free food & beer mask deeper issues.
Read more here:
theconversation.com/free-food-an...
Free food and beer are common perks for hospitality workers – but are they masking unfairness?
As one chef put it: ‘Free steak dinners don’t pay my rent or stop my boss docking pay for smoke breaks.’
theconversation.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Back in my #hospo days I used to love a free drink at the end of (or during) a shift. When I became an academic I recognised the benefits that had been taken from me.
Our research discusses how perks like free food & beer mask deeper issues.
Read more here:
theconversation.com/free-food-an...
Our research discusses how perks like free food & beer mask deeper issues.
Read more here:
theconversation.com/free-food-an...
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New research shows successive NZ governments keep opting for expensive short-term fixes after floods and other disasters. But there are two other choices available.
As insurance gets harder to buy, NZ has 3 choices for disaster recovery – and we keep choosing the worst one
theconversation.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
New research shows successive NZ governments keep opting for expensive short-term fixes after floods and other disasters. But there are two other choices available.
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Proudly announcing the launch of our report on the work of the Inverclyde Advice and Empliyment Rights Centre, first finding from our Amplifying Workers' Voice project improvingworkinglives.org
Improving Working Lives
Fair work does not exist in Inverclyde in Glasgow says University of Strathclyde research team.
improvingworkinglives.org
April 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Proudly announcing the launch of our report on the work of the Inverclyde Advice and Empliyment Rights Centre, first finding from our Amplifying Workers' Voice project improvingworkinglives.org
We wrote about this in the context of COVID-19, whereby workers faced double disenfranchisement as both migrants & independent contractors. Also how workers agentically enacted their own justices to navigate their precarity [in absence of institutional supports] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We wrote about this in the context of COVID-19, whereby workers faced double disenfranchisement as both migrants & independent contractors. Also how workers agentically enacted their own justices to navigate their precarity [in absence of institutional supports] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Watch the excellent film Nae Pasaran ... vimeo.com/ondemand/nae...
March 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Watch the excellent film Nae Pasaran ... vimeo.com/ondemand/nae...
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🚨 New research alert! 🚨
Our multi-country study reveals gendered inequalities in #Africa's platform economy. Women face lower pay, greater precarity & sectoral exclusion—despite higher education. Time for policy action!
Read more 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #GigEconomy #GenderEquality
Our multi-country study reveals gendered inequalities in #Africa's platform economy. Women face lower pay, greater precarity & sectoral exclusion—despite higher education. Time for policy action!
Read more 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #GigEconomy #GenderEquality
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March 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🚨 New research alert! 🚨
Our multi-country study reveals gendered inequalities in #Africa's platform economy. Women face lower pay, greater precarity & sectoral exclusion—despite higher education. Time for policy action!
Read more 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #GigEconomy #GenderEquality
Our multi-country study reveals gendered inequalities in #Africa's platform economy. Women face lower pay, greater precarity & sectoral exclusion—despite higher education. Time for policy action!
Read more 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #GigEconomy #GenderEquality
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This is so bleak, but I also have a little antidote, which is an interview with Nick Southall on #disastercommunism being broadcast on 4ZZZ 102.1FM tmw morning 9-10am, & which will also be on the @radioreversal.bsky.social podcast
The weather is unprecedented, so must be our resistance I guess?
The weather is unprecedented, so must be our resistance I guess?
By 2032 we’ll get once-in-a-generation events down to monthly. Now that’s productivity growth.
March 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This is so bleak, but I also have a little antidote, which is an interview with Nick Southall on #disastercommunism being broadcast on 4ZZZ 102.1FM tmw morning 9-10am, & which will also be on the @radioreversal.bsky.social podcast
The weather is unprecedented, so must be our resistance I guess?
The weather is unprecedented, so must be our resistance I guess?
Interested in how rezoning, relocating, raising, & other resilient housing programs have played out around the world? Join us tomorrow (10am AEST) for the webinar to discuss some of the trade-offs involved in getting to more disaster resilient housing.
www.naturalhazards.com.au/news-and-eve...
www.naturalhazards.com.au/news-and-eve...
March Hazardous Webinar - Resilient housing policies: A framework for evaluation | Natural Hazards Research Australia
In the March Hazardous Webinar, join us for a fascinating look at global post-disaster resilience housing programs and what they mean for Australia.
www.naturalhazards.com.au
March 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Interested in how rezoning, relocating, raising, & other resilient housing programs have played out around the world? Join us tomorrow (10am AEST) for the webinar to discuss some of the trade-offs involved in getting to more disaster resilient housing.
www.naturalhazards.com.au/news-and-eve...
www.naturalhazards.com.au/news-and-eve...