Description: Uberworked and UnderpaidHow Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy Author(s): Trebor Scholz Format: Paperback Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Polity Press ISBN-13: 9780745653570, 978-0745653570 Synopsis 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 S?o Paulo can act in solidarity to defend their rights.
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Book Title: Uberworked and Underpaid
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 227 mm
Item Weight: 390 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Trebor Scholz
Subject Area: Social Work
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
