The Gig Economy Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Brian Dolber, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Todd Wolfson
ISBN:
9781000391329
Related ISBNs:
9780367686222, 9781003140054, 9780367690212
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
322
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2021-05-30
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2021
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies