TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravenelle,Alexandrea J.
TI  - Hustle and gig: struggling and surviving in the sharing economy 
SN  - 9780520300552
AV  - HD5857 .R38 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oakland: California
PB  - University of California press
KW  - Precarious employment
KW  - Independent contractors
KW  - Employee rights
KW  - Flexible work arrangements
KW  - United States
KW  - Labor
KW  - Labor market
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-259) and index
N2  - "The sharing economy claims to bring the romance of entrepreneurship to the masses. Through qualitative interviews with nearly eighty workers for Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing, 'Hustle and Gig' explores how the gig economy's classification of workers as "independent contractors" results in a shifting of risk and liability as part of a larger casualization of labor. Just like their colleagues in the 1800s and early 1900s, workers find themselves outside even the most basic workplace protections regarding discrimination and sexual harassment, the right to unionize, and redress for workplace injuries. The sharing economy is a movement forward to the past as it upends generations of workplace protections in the name of disruption"--Provided by publisher
ER  -