Adam Badger was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oii, working as part of the Fairwork project team. His interdisciplinary (Geography & Management) PhD investigated the lived experiences of work in London’s gig economy, and modes of resistance to this contemporary form of technologically enabled organisation. He is motivated by questions of justice, fairness, and equality at work, and uses research that prioritises investigations of materiality and lived practice in the city to interrogate these.
Adam’s other research work includes a Postdoctoral position at Royal Holloway where he worked in a team to investigate mutual aid responses to the COVID-19 crisis in England as a possibility for radical potential futures. This included the development of a novel research methodologies tailored to pandemic limitations, and the co-creation of an interactive documentary and ‘manifesto for mutual aid’.
Adam has also worked as a postdoc on a British Academy project (Royal Holloway & Monash) to investigate the possibilities of Just Transitions toward decarbonisation in Australia, where he considered work, technology and labour as part of a just transition.
Gig economy, Platform work, Trade Unions, Technology, Work, Ethnography, Venture Capital
By Kelle Howson, Hannah Johnston, Nancy Salem, Robbie Warin, Fabian Ferrari, Yihan Zhu, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Daniel Arubayi, Srujana Katta, Shelly Steward, Matthew Cole, Adam Badger, and Mark Graham
What sort of working standards do gig economy remote workers face? This Fairwork report scores 17 platforms on the conditions they offer, and highlights the failure to offer basic standards of fairness across much of the cloudwork industry.
By Funda Ustek-Spilda, Richard Heeks, Mark Graham, Alessio Bertolini, Srujana Katta, Sandra Fredman, Kelle Howson, Fabian Ferrari, Mounika Neerukonda, Pradyumna Taduri, Adam Badger, and Nancy Salem
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit precarious gig workers particularly hard. This Fairwork report considers platforms’ responses to the virus and suggests that work remains to sufficiently protect their workers.
31 January 2024
A new report from Fairwork researchers sheds light on the challenges and opportunities facing workers in the gig economy.
14 May 2020
27 April 2020
A new report has shone a light on the plight of some 50 million gig economy workers across the world since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
23 March 2018
