Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human agents endure repetitive telephone conversations with abusive clients under invasive…
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"The sharing economy claims to bring the romance of entrepreneurship to the masses. Through qualitative interviews with nearly eighty workers for Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing, 'Hustle and Gig' explores how the gig economy's classification of workers as "independe…
"The sharing economy claims to bring the romance of entrepreneurship to the masses. Through qualitative interviews with nearly eighty workers for Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing, 'Hustle and Gig' explores how the gig economy's classification of workers as "independe…
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, enhanc…
"The sharing economy claims to bring the romance of entrepreneurship to the masses. Through qualitative interviews with nearly eighty workers for Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing, 'Hustle and Gig' explores how the gig economy's classification of workers as "independe…
Success stories, strugglers and strivers -- What is the sharing economy? -- Forward to the past and the early industrial age -- Workplace troubles -- Sharing is caring -- All in a day's (dirty) work -- Living the dream? "The sharing economy claims to bring the romance of entrep…
"The sharing economy claims to bring the romance of entrepreneurship to the masses. Through qualitative interviews with nearly eighty workers for Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing, [this book] explores how the gig economy's classification of workers as 'independent co…
"The sharing economy claims to bring the romance of entrepreneurship to the masses. Through qualitative interviews with nearly eighty workers for Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing, 'Hustle and Gig' explores how the gig economy's classification of workers as "independe…
"Positioned within the discourse of neoliberalism and precarious work, this book draws on Standing's notion of 'the precariat' in an examination of the role of individual recruiters as the key actors in labour recruitment and management practices that produce precarious work con…
"Positioned within the discourse of neoliberalism and precarious work, this book draws on Standing's notion of 'the precariat' in an examination of the role of individual recruiters as the key actors in labour recruitment and management practices that produce precarious work con…
Precariatised Labour in Construction -- Working Conditions and the Image of Construction Work -- The Migration-construction Nexus -- Recruitment Practices and the Key Actors -- Working with the Recruiters -- Hyper-individualised Employment -- A Political Economy of the Construct…
Precariatised Labour in Construction -- Working Conditions and the Image of Construction Work -- The Migration-construction Nexus -- Recruitment Practices and the Key Actors -- Working with the Recruiters -- Hyper-individualised Employment -- A Political Economy of the Construct…
"Positioned within the discourse of neoliberalism and precarious work, this book draws on Standing's notion of 'the precariat' in an examination of the role of individual recruiters as the key actors in labour recruitment and management practices that produce precarious work con…
"Positioned within the discourse of neoliberalism and precarious work, this book draws on Standing's notion of 'the precariat' in an examination of the role of individual recruiters as the key actors in labour recruitment and management practices that produce precarious work con…
We often hear that creative and intellectual innovation is the key to western economic renewal, that cognitive capitalism has succeeded in globalizing the mental-manual division of labour, and that old work - blue-collar, repetitive, de-skilled - is now consigned to the factorie…
"Looking at Austria, Denmark, and Sweden, this book shows that the weaker the government, the stronger the capacity of organized labor to enhance the social protection of precarious workers"--
