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Self-employed --- Self-employed. --- 331.102.1 --- Arbeid als zelfstandige; als vrij beroep; tengevolge arbeidsovereenkomst --- 331.102.1 Arbeid als zelfstandige; als vrij beroep; tengevolge arbeidsovereenkomst --- Free-lancers --- Freelancers --- Persons --- Self-employed - United States.

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"The Digital Hustle When we met in the middle of a rare snowstorm in Washington, DC, in January, Charlie was bundled up against the cold in his Carhartt jacket, thick socks, and sturdy work boots, with a knit cap pulled down over his ears. As he peeled off his many layers in our booth at a Dunkin' Donuts, he apologized for smelling like cigarette smoke, saying that bad winter weather always makes him think a little harder about quitting for good. Charlie explained that smoking was a small comfort in what he felt were uncertain times. "It's like, every day you just you walk out your door and you're already stressed. Because we never know, even these days, you never know what the next day is going to be like. You have no idea. I'm just trying to keep my guys busy." Charlie's "guys" are a small crew of two or three manual workers he tried to keep in regular work through a patchwork of contracting, demolition gigs, and moving jobs. Looking older than his forty-seven years, Charlie told me about how he came to start his own home contracting and moving business after he left his union construction job when his boss was replaced by someone much younger than him. He enjoyed the freedom and independence that came with "being his own boss": being my own boss, I don't have to deal with nobody. And for me, because I'm forty-seven, I can't deal with a twenty- or thirty-year-old, some young kid like you being my boss"-- An examination of the ways that digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the lives of precarious workers, far beyond the gig economy apps like Uber and Lyft.Over the past three decades, digital technologies like smartphones and laptops have transformed the way we work in the US. At the same time, workers at both ends of the income ladder have experienced rising levels of job insecurity and anxiety about their economic futures. In Left to Our Own Devices, Julia Ticona explores the ways that workers use their digital technologies to navigate insecure and flexible labor markets. Through 100 interviews with high and low-wage precarious workers across the US, she explores the surprisingly similar "digital hustles" they use to find work and maintain a sense of dignity and identity. Ticona then reveals how the digital hustle ultimately reproduces inequalities between workers at either end of polarized labor markets. A moving and accessible look at the intimate consequences of contemporary capitalism, Left to Our Own Devices will be of interest to sociologists, communication and media studies scholars, as well as a general audience of readers interested in digital technologies, inequality, and the future of work in the US. (Provided by publisher)

Gig economy --- Self-employed --- Internet --- Labor market --- Precarious employment --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Crowd employment (Gig economy) --- Platform economy --- Platform work (Gig economy) --- Sharing economy (Gig economy) --- Cooperation --- Flexible work arrangements --- Temporary employment --- Economic aspects --- Employment, Precarious --- Labor --- #SBIB:316.334.2A340 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A360 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A370 --- 316.344.2 --- 316.344.2 Socio-economische groepen --- Socio-economische groepen --- Arbeidssociologie: ongelijkheden op de arbeidsmarkt: algemeen --- Arbeidssociologie: werkzoekpatronen en arbeidsmobiliteit --- Arbeidssociologie: uitzendbureau, onderaanneming, uitbesteding --- Non-standard employment --- Gig economy - United States --- Internet - Economic aspects - United States --- Labor market - United States --- Precarious employment - United States --- Self-employed - United States