Uber recruiter Lorena Castellanos, 26, (R) talks to Masood Noori, 26, at TechFair LA, a technology job fair, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
AUBERVILLIERS, France: Maligned by leftist French politicians as a symbol of the jobbing economy, Uber is making inroads in high-rise Paris suburbs, with the prospect of work luring thousands of young drivers despite difficult conditions.
On a freezing afternoon in January a line of young men stretched out of the door at an Uber driver centre in the tough suburb of Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris.
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