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Index
Cover
Front Matter
Introduction
What do we mean by the gig economy?
Why did we write this book?
What will the book cover?
Notes
1 Where did the gig economy come from?
The preconditions that shape the gig economy
The rise of the gig economy
Notes
2 How does the gig economy work?
What is a platform?
The case of Uber
The geographically tethered model
The cloudwork model
Understanding how platforms work
Notes
3 What is it like to work in the gig economy?
Delivery work
Taxi work
Domestic and care work
Microwork
Online freelancing
Notes
4 How are workers reshaping the gig economy?
Emerging forms of resistance in geographically tethered work
Cloudwork and resistance
Towards a new kind of trade unionism?
Notes
Conclusion: What next for the gig economy?
Future #1: Transparency
Future #2: Accountability
Future #3: Worker power
Future #4: Democratic ownership
What can you do?
Notes
Appendix: Draft Convention on Platform Work
Notes
References
Index
End User License Agreement
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