HUSTLE AND GIG: STRUGGLING AND SURVIVING IN THE SHARING ECONOMY
Book ID/图书代码： 13520019C00010
English Summary/英文概要： Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to transcend capitalism. Supporters argue that the gig economy will reverse economic inequality, enhance worker rights, and bring entrepreneurship to the masses. But does it?
In Hustle and Gig, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle shares the personal stories of nearly eighty predominantly millennial workers from Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing. Their stories underline the volatility of working in the gig economy: the autonomy these young workers expected has been usurped by the need to maintain algorithm-approved acceptance and response rates. The sharing economy upends generations of workplace protections such as worker safety; workplace protections around discrimination and sexual harassment; the right to unionize; and the right to redress for injuries. Discerning three types of gig economy workers—Success Stories, who have used the gig economy to create the life they want; Strugglers, who can’t make ends meet; and Strivers, who have stable jobs and use the sharing economy for extra cash—Ravenelle examines the costs, benefits, and societal impact of this new economic movement. Poignant and evocative, Hustle and Gig exposes how the gig economy is the millennial’s version of minimum-wage precarious work.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： ★《新劳动论坛期刊》、牛津大学《社会力量期刊》、LSE Review of Books书评、《社会学论坛期刊》推荐、哈佛大学教授朱丽叶．修尔（Juliet B. Schor）推荐
★亚马逊五颗星推荐
「自由选择工时、自由选择工作、当你自己的老板、对你自己的收入有自主权！欢迎来到共享经济的时代！」
无数的在线平台和app如此承诺将要改变资本主义，支持者们声称零工经济将能翻转经济不平等，让劳工拥有权利，让企业得以繁荣。但，真的吗？
在本书中，Alexandrea J. Ravenelle将与我们分享来自Airbnb，Uber，TaskRabbit和Kitchensurfing等，将近80位零工工作者的个人故事，他们大部分是千禧世代，他们的故事突显了零工经济工作的波动性：这些年轻劳工们所期待的工作自主权，事实上为了维持算法上的满意度和响应率而遭到剥夺，而同时，零工经济也推翻了过去好几个世代以来对劳工权利的保护措施，包括劳工安全、职场歧视与性骚扰防护、组织工会的权利以及获得工伤赔偿的权利。
藉由零工经济中的三种故事：成功者－他们利用零工经济创造了他们想要的生活；挣扎者－他们无法维持生计；以及奋斗者－他们本来就拥有稳定的工作，并使用共享经济来获取额外的收入，本书检视了在这种新兴的经济运动中的成本、效益和社会冲击，引人同情且深富批判性，揭露了零工经济为什么是最低工资且危险工作的千禧版本。(Zoe)
Awards/获奖情况："Hustle and Gig vividly exposes the contradictions between the lofty promises of gig work for those with high social and cultural capital (e.g., Airbnb and Kitchensurfing workers) and the darker reality of many who struggle to make ends meet through platforms such as Uber and TaskRabbit."—Arne L. Kalleberg, author of Precarious Lives
"Hustle and Gig takes a smart, penetrating look at what’s happening in the platform economy—how it resembles an earlier industrial age when workers toiled long hours doing piecework for meager pay while lacking many basic protections. This book sheds a much-needed light onto some dark corners of the gig economy."—Steven Greenhouse, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up
"Reveals how the gig economy is organized in ways that actually serve to roll back protections for workers—it is a ’hustle.’"—Jennifer Silva, author of Coming Up Short
"Ravenelle demonstrates an understanding of both local and global instances of emotional labor and precarious workplace challenges. Readers from every walk of life will respond to these excellent connections."—Tamara R. Mose, author of The Playdate and Raising Brooklyn
"Upends the slick rhetoric of micro-entrepreneurship and flexibility to reveal the seamy underside of providers’ actual experiences—sexual harassment, uncompensated workplace injuries, client criminality, and extreme economic insecurity. These unforgettable narratives should reset the conversation about this new type of work."—Juliet Schor, author of Plenitude
About the Author/作者介绍： Alexandrea J. Ravenelle是Mercy大学的社会学助理教授，也是纽约大学公共知识研究所的访问学者。
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU.
Format:HARDCOVER
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