This case study focuses on the interests and lived experiences of the "non-employed", gig-app driver workforce, versus the interests and strategies of the companies (e.g. Uber, Amazon) that use the services of these workers.In this case study you will critically analyse the employment relationship between the gig-app driver workforce and the companies that use the services of these workers, and you will weigh the merits of both parties' claims. You willidentify the implications of this relationship, and you will consider the merits of radical change to the status quo. You will also reflect on the contemporary relevance and value of the two conflict / radical change paradigms, which you will be drawing on throughout your report.

For each section of your entire report you must draw explicitly on:

• the two conflict / radical change paradigms - that is, radical structuralism and radical humanism/neo-humanism

• at least one concept / theory discussed between Weeks 6 to 11. See this worksheet for an overview of relevant concepts / theories.

This assignment is important and authentic because it will help you to understand the origins of conflict affecting organisations, and the relevance and importance of radical change movements to contemporary organisational life. This assignment will round out your ability to look at organisational problems from multiple perspectives. With this more rounded knowledge, you will be better placed to tackle organisational problems thoughtfully, and with regard to multiple stakeholders. You will also be better able to anticipate conflict and how this might impact organisations and their legitimacy.

- Describe the conflict of interest between gig-app workers and the companies that use their services. You must articulate this conflict of interest in theoretical terms - that is, you must explicitly draw on the stated theories to help you understand and express the nature of this conflict.

-Identify the implications of the current conditions of gig-app work for workers, their families, and communities.

-Discuss and weigh the merits of the claims made by companies in support of laws such as Proposition 22*

-Discuss and weigh the merits of dismantling the status quo (by status quo, what is meant is the current societal, political, and economic order, which includes, for example, a power imbalance between large corporations and gig-app workers). We are asking you, here, to consider the merits of 'radical change'. Endeavour to construct an argument as to why it might be in the interests of the companies who use the services of gig-app workers to respond meaningfully to their concerns and claims. Do not forget to draw explicitly on the relevant theories.

-What kind of insights have the two conflict paradigms and your chosen theories/concepts allowed you to see in this case study? In what ways are these insights valuable?