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Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to transcend capitalism. Supporters argue that the gig economy will reverse economic inequality, enhance worker rights, and bring entrepreneurship to the masses. But does it? In Hustle and Gig, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle shares the personal stories of nearly eighty predominantly millennial workers from Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing. Their stories underline the volatility of working in the gig economy: the autonomy these young workers expected has been usurped by the need to maintain algorithm-approved acceptance and response rates. The sharing economy upends generations of workplace protections such as worker safety; workplace protections around discrimination and sexual harassment; the right to unionize; and the right to redress for injuries. Discerning three types of gig economy workers-Success Stories, who have used the gig economy to create the life they want; Strugglers, who can't make ends meet; and Strivers, who have stable jobs and use the sharing economy for extra cash-Ravenelle examines the costs, benefits, and societal impact of this new economic movement. Poignant and evocative, Hustle and Gig exposes how the gig economy is the millennial's version of minimum-wage precarious work.
Precarious employment --- Independent contractors --- Employee rights --- Cooperation --- Employment, Precarious --- Labor --- #SBIB:316.334.2A510 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A84 --- Organisatiesociologie: morfologie van de onderneming, incl. KMO’s --- Bijzondere arbeidsproblemen: arbeidsduur, ploegenarbeid, flexibiliteit --- Non-standard employment --- Precarious employment - United States --- Independent contractors - United States --- Employee rights - United States --- Cooperation - United States --- Flexible work arrangements --- Labor market --- Alternate work arrangements --- Hours of labor --- Gig economy --- airbnb. --- be your own boss. --- choose your hours. --- choose your work. --- control your own income. --- discrimination. --- economic inequality. --- enhance worker rights. --- entrepreneurs. --- gig economy. --- kitchensurfing. --- maintain algorithm approved acceptance. --- millennial workers. --- online platforms. --- response rates. --- right to unionize. --- sexual harassment. --- sharing economy. --- taskrabbit. --- transcend capitalism. --- uber. --- volatility. --- worker safety. --- workplace protections. --- E-books
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Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice. A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in international development. "Open development" can describe initiatives as disparate as open government, open health data, open science, open education, and open innovation. The theory was that open systems related to data, science, and innovation would enable more inclusive processes of human development. This volume, drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyzes how open development has played out in practice.
Economic development --- Gender mainstreaming. --- Human rights. --- International cooperation. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Analysis, Gender-based --- GBA (Gender-based analysis) --- Gender-based analysis --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Mainstreaming, Gender --- Social sciences --- Sex discrimination --- Law and legislation --- Methodology --- access --- broadband --- collaborative science --- communications --- connectivity --- crowdsourcing --- data --- development --- digital economy --- ecology --- economics --- education --- educational resources --- entrepreneurship --- equity --- gender --- geography --- global --- global development --- global markets --- government --- health --- inclusion --- inequality --- information --- information science --- innovation hubs --- internet --- knowledge --- knowledge exchange --- logistics --- marginality --- MOOCs --- NGOs --- OCSDNet --- online platforms --- open access --- open data --- open innovation --- openness --- open science --- policy --- politics --- public resources --- Reddit --- resource distribution --- social inclusion --- technology --- telecommunications --- telecommunications reform --- U.N. --- UNDP --- university --- wi-fi
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