The Gig Economy
Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence
Brian Dolber, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Todd Wolfson, Brian Dolber, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Todd Wolfson
- 328 pages
- English
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The Gig Economy
Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence
Brian Dolber, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Todd Wolfson, Brian Dolber, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Todd Wolfson
About This Book
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.
From rideshare drivers in Los Angeles to domestic workers in Delhi, from sex work to podcasting, this book draws together research that examines the gig economy's exploitation of workers and their resistance. Employing critical theoretical perspectives and methodologies in a variety of national contexts, contributors consider the roles that media, policy, culture, and history, as well as gender, race, and ethnicity play in forging working conditions in the 'gig economy'. Contributors examine the complex and historical relationships between media and gig work integral to capitalism with the aim of exposing and, ultimately, ending exploitation.
This book will appeal to students and scholars examining questions of technology, media, and labor across media and communication studies, information studies, and labor studies as well as activists, journalists, and policymakers.