The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence

ISBN-13: 9780367690212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 322 str.

Brian Dolber; Michelle Rodino-Colocino; Chenjerai Kumanyika

Opis

This edited collection examines the gig economy in the age of convergence from a critical political economic perspective. Contributions explore how media, technology, and labor are converging to create new modes of production, as well as new modes of resistance.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence  Part 2: 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?: Ridehailing in Los Angeles County 3. Care in the Platform Economy: Interrogating the Digital Organisation of Domestic Work in India 4. Sex Work/Gig Work: A Feminist Analysis of Precarious Domina Labor in the Gig Economy  Part 3: 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: Notes on (Dis)Organized Academia  Part 4: Media: Negotiating the Gig Economy  9. “Viene cuando viene, no es gran cantidad de dinero”: 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  Part 5: Struggles: Organizing in the Gig Economy  12. Platform Organizing: Tech Worker Struggles and Digital Tools for Labor Movements 13. Competition, Collaboration and Combination: Differences in Attitudes to Collective Organization Among Offline and Online Platform Workers 14. Uprooting Uber: From “Data Fracking” to Data Commons 15. Precarity Beyond the Gig: From University Halls to Tech Campuses 16. The Cycle of Struggle: Food Platform Strikes in the UK 2016-18  Part 6: Conclusion: We Are All Gig Workers