Taxi Drivers Association of Austin

The Startup – Reinvention and Disruption: Austin’s Immigrant Taxi Drivers in the Age of Uber (2019)

Case studies

• Vlacic and Štromajer – Taxi Cooperatives as an Alternative to Uber (2020)
• Borowiak and Ji – Taxi co‐ops versus Uber: Struggles for workplace democracy in the sharing economy (2019)

Learn more

• The Startup – Reinvention and Disruption: Austin’s Immigrant Taxi Drivers in the Age of Uber (2019)
• Shareable – Why taxi cooperatives offer better job security for drivers (2018)
• Generocity – Austin found a viable, socially conscious response to Uber and Lyft. Can Philly follow? (2017)
• Austin Chronicle – Reviving Austin’s Cab Industry (2017)
• Waging Nonviolence – How Uber and Lyft were driven from Austin and replaced with a worker cooperative (2016)
• Cooperative Party – Texan taxi drivers are showing there’s a co-operative alternative to the Uber economy (2016)
• Austin Chronicle – Cab Co-op Starts Its Engines (2016)
• KUT – This Is How a Taxi Co-Op Would Work in Austin (2016)
• City of Austin – Austin Transportation Department to begin accepting Taxi Franchise applications (2016)
• Curbed – Ridesharing Co-op Gets Thumbs-Up From Austin City Council (2016)
• Statesman – Austin council supports cab co-op, efforts to help ride-hail companies (2016)
• Statesman – Austin taxi deals expiring as industry, city deal with rapid change (2016)
• Austin Monitor – Taxicab drivers rally for worker-owned co-op (2015)
• KXAN – To compete with Uber, Lyft, Austin taxi drivers want to start co-op (2015)
• Lexology – Union taxi drivers to Uber and other ride-share services: since we can’t beat you, we’ll join you (2015)