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‘You can make as little as £3 in an hour’: Inside Edinburgh's gig economy

‘You can make as little as £3 in an hour’: Inside Edinburgh's gig economy

The delivery riders facing dangerous conditions for low pay in the Capital

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Feb 25, 2025
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When entrepreneurs Will Shu and Greg Orlowski created an online platform to deliver food mainly by bike in London in 2013, they started a revolution.

Twelve years on from the launch of Deliveroo, the desire for Net Zero transport and multiple Covid-19 lockdowns have secured the place of food delivery cyclists in th…

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