Subcontracting and algorithmic management in e-commerce are turning the logistics sector into a laboratory for labour abuses, warns academic Silvia Borelli

Driven by e-commerce and the radical changes that technology has brought about in European consumption habits, logistics has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the EU economy. But it is also undergoing changes that, in the final stage of online order distribution and delivery, it has become a veritable laboratory of precarious work and labour abuses. European society is buying and consuming online at an ever growing rate, and the need to transport and deliver all these items has (…)