Economic experimentation as social action

Like many other mobile workers, taxi drivers are owners of the means of production, making the industry particularly difficult to unionise. How can they be empowered? In this video, Erik Forman (PhD candidate in anthropology at City University of New York, and co-founder of The Drivers Cooperative) discusses with Biao Xiang how The Drivers Cooperative brings drivers, riders, technology, and capital into new relations. Surprisingly, 'Uberization' has resulted in technological infrastructure that progressive experimentation can tap into, as long as one dares to try.