Everyone is invited to the free Big Tech and the Gig Economy in DC: Walking Tour, starting at 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 7 in Farragut Square! The Tour will explore 3 sites in downtown DC connected to how tech firms undermined racial justice, used illegal lobbying to displace existing companies, and used DC as a model to remake urban spaces around the world in Uber’s image over the last decade -to the detriment of workers in DC and beyond. The Walking Tour will be led by 3 geographers and scholars on labor in the DC region: Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen, the authors of the new book Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City and will draw on material and research from the book. The tour will adjourn at 3:00 pm nearby, followed by a happy hour afterward at outdoor tables at Penn Quarter Sports Tavern.

The tour will make 3 stops in Downtown DC. We will provide snacks and water on the tour. The Walking Tour is hosted by Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America.