| Description |
1 online resource (341 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction: The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence -- The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence -- II History: We Were Always Gig Workers -- 1 Behind the Wheel and in the Streets: Technological Transformation, Exit, and Voice in the New York City Taxi Industry -- 2 More than a Gig? Ride-hailing in Los Angeles County -- 3 Care in the Platform Economy: Interrogating the Digital Organisation of Domestic Work in India |
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4 Sex Work/Gig Work: A Feminist Analysis of Precarious Domina Labor in the Gig Economy -- III Ideology: Thinking Like a Gig Economist -- 5 "The Future Demands We All Become Prolific Artists": Cultural Ideals of Gig Work in Popular Management Literature -- 6 "Uber for Radio?": Professionalism and Production Cultures in Podcasting -- 7 Good People "Belong Anywhere": Airbnb's Emerging Neofascism -- 8 'Uber' University and Labor Recomposition: Struggling Notes on (Dis)organized Academia -- IV Media: Negotiating the Gig Economy |
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9 "¿Qué hay detrás de todo?": Opacity, Precarity, and the Unwaged Labor of Latina Audiobook Narrators -- 10 Liquid Assets: Camming and Cashing In on Desire in the Digital Age -- 11 This is Gig Leisure: Games, Gamification, and Gig Labor -- 12 Uprooting Uber: From "Data Fracking" to Data Commons -- V Struggles: Organizing in the Gig Economy -- 13 Platform Organizing: Tech Worker Struggles and Digital Tools for Labour Movements -- 14 Competition, Collaboration and Combination: Differences in Attitudes to Collective Organization Among Offline and Online Platform Workers |
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15 Precarity Beyond the Gig: From University Halls to Tech Campuses -- 16 The Cycle of Struggle: Food Platform Strikes in the UK 2016-18 -- VI Conclusion: We Are All Gig Workers -- Conclusion: We Are All Gig Workers -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rodino-Colocino, Michelle
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Kumanyika, Chenjerai
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Wolfson, Todd
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| ISBN |
9781000391350 |
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1000391353 |
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