TY - BOOK ID - 736220 TI - Uberworked and underpaid : how workers are disrupting the digital economy PY - 2017 SN - 9780745653563 9780745653570 9781509508167 074565357X 0745653561 PB - Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of work KW - Social law. Labour law KW - Information technology KW - Social media KW - Labor KW - Electronic commerce KW - Internet industry KW - Economic aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Labor. KW - Internet industry. KW - Computer industry KW - Cybercommerce KW - E-business KW - E-commerce KW - E-tailing KW - eBusiness KW - eCommerce KW - Electronic business KW - Internet commerce KW - Internet retailing KW - Online commerce KW - Web retailing KW - Commerce KW - Information superhighway KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Manpower KW - Work KW - Working class KW - Economic aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Information technology - Economic aspects KW - Information technology - Social aspects KW - Social media - Economic aspects KW - Electronic commerce - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:736220 AB - This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network culture's toughest critics, Trebor Scholz chronicles the work of workers in the "sharing economy," and the free labor on sites like Facebook, to take these myths apart. In this rich, accessible, and provocative book, Scholz exposes the uncaring reality of contingent digital work, which is thriving at the expense of employment and worker rights. The book is meant to inspire readers to join the growing number of worker-owned "platform cooperatives," rethink unions, and build a better future of work. A call to action, loud and clear, Uberworked and Underpaid shows that it is time to stop wage theft and "crowd fleecing," rethink wealth distribution, and address the urgent question of how digital labor should be regulated and how workers from Berlin, Barcelona, Seattle, and São Paulo can act in solidarity to defend their rights. ER -