Uber-Worked And Underpaid: How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy
How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy
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Trebor Scholz's "Uber-Worked and Underpaid" examines the challenges faced by workers in the gig economy, particularly those employed by platforms like Uber.
The book explores the precarious nature of platform work, highlighting issues such as low pay, lack of benefits, and job insecurity.
It also analyzes the ways in which workers are organizing and resisting these exploitative conditions, including the rise of platform cooperatives as an alternative model.
The book offers a critical analysis of the power dynamics between platforms and workers, and proposes solutions for creating a more just and equitable digital economy.
It serves as a foundational text for understanding the complexities of platform labor and the need for worker empowerment.
The book explores the precarious nature of platform work, highlighting issues such as low pay, lack of benefits, and job insecurity.
It also analyzes the ways in which workers are organizing and resisting these exploitative conditions, including the rise of platform cooperatives as an alternative model.
The book offers a critical analysis of the power dynamics between platforms and workers, and proposes solutions for creating a more just and equitable digital economy.
It serves as a foundational text for understanding the complexities of platform labor and the need for worker empowerment.
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