Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
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忙碌与零工：共享经济中的挣扎与生存
作者：
M. Dunn
我们知道，当代工人面临着工作场所的变化，这些变化是由技术效率的快速提高（Gomes 2019），工人和雇主之间忠诚度的期望降低（Sweet和Meiksins 2015）以及管理工作场所和工人权利的政策和规则的削弱（Kalleberg 2015）驱动的。这些力量共同重塑了人们追求工作的方式;改变了他们对就业的看法，并绘制了一条更不稳定的道路。在这一背景下，信息和通信技术的迅速发展正在发挥核心作用。例如，连通性的进步（例如，互联网基础设施和接入）、软件（例如，Upwork、Fiverr等平台）和设备（例如智能手机和平板电脑）已经产生了一个新的工作生态系统，（例如，索耶，Crowston和Wigand 2014）。支持者认为，这种新的经济运动，或者被描述为按需，平台或演出经济，将建立社区，扭转经济不平等，停止生态破坏，增强工人权利，赋予穷人权力，并将创业精神带给大众（Mathew 2014; Botsman和Rogers 2010）。亚历山大·拉文内尔（Alexandria Ravenelle）的书探讨了零工经济的崇高承诺与工人生活经历之间的矛盾。Ravenelle以批判的眼光审视这一新运动的成本和收益。在整本书中，Ravenelle提出，这种新的经济运动正在重现19世纪和20世纪初首次出现的相同的劳工问题-不安全的工作条件;缺乏对歧视和性骚扰的工作场所保护;以及工会化的强大障碍。
We know that contemporary workers face changes in the workplace driven by rapid increased in technical efficiencies (Gomes 2019), decreased expectations of loyalty between workers and employers (Sweet and Meiksins 2015), and weakened policies and rules governing the workplace and worker rights (Kalleberg 2015). Together, these forces are reshaping the ways in which people are pursuing work; altering the ways they think about employment and charting a path of greater precarity. Against this backdrop, the rapid evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are playing central roles. For example, advancements in connectivity (eg, internet infrastructure and access), software (eg, platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, and others), and devices (eg, smartphones and tablets) has yielded a new work ecosystem that is increasingly technologically-reliant (eg, Sawyer, Crowston, and Wigand 2014).Supporters argue that this new economic movement, alternatively described as the on-demand, platform or gig economy, will build community, reverse economic inequality, stop ecological destruction, enhance worker rights, empower the poor, and bring entrepreneurship to the masses (Mathew 2014; Botsman and Rogers 2010). Enter Alexandria Ravenelle’s book, which explores the contradiction between the lofty promises of the gig economy and the lived experiences of workers. Ravenelle takes a critical perspective that exams the costs and benefits of this new movement. Throughout the book, Ravenelle makes the case that this new economic movement is recreating the same labor issues first seen in the 1800s and early 1900s—unsafe working conditions; lack of workplace protections around discrimination and sexual harassment; and strong barriers to unionization.
SAGE 工作与就业社会学手册
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发表时间：
2015
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作者：
Stewart, P
通讯作者：
Stewart, P