Gig Economy

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>