Resources on the gig economy

April 22, 2021 3:34 PM

I've been googling, but I am having a hard time finding comprehensive resources, or even a really good long article, on gig economy work. Have you read anything like this that you could recommend to me?

I am more interested in what might be termed low skill work than I am in, say, gig based ad executives, but anything would be great.

posted by hought20 to Work & Money (6 answers total)

“I Accept Pay Less Than My Worth Just To Get A Job": How The Gig Economy Screwed Over Millennials, an excerpt from Anne Helen Petersen's Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:40 PM on April 22, 2021 [5 favorites]

Hamilton Nolan: The Gig Economy Is a Vampire That We Shouldn't Make Peace With
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:28 PM on April 22, 2021

https://newrepublic.com/article/153744/gig-economy

https://onezero.medium.com/the-gig-economy-is-failing-say-hello-to-the-hustle-economy-13ae3aa91954

https://lithub.com/how-to-write-about-burnout-in-the-gig-economy/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/what-happened-to-the-steady-job/
posted by demonic winged headgear at 5:33 PM on April 22, 2021 [1 favorite]

A four-part series:
https://www.kcet.org/shows/city-rising/the-new-normal-freelancing-hustling-and-informal-labor
posted by demonic winged headgear at 5:36 PM on April 22, 2021 [1 favorite]

https://medium.com/matter/the-shut-in-economy-ec3ec1294816

https://newrepublic.com/article/156202/silicon-valley-economy-here-its-nightmare

several here:
https://longreads.com/?s=gig+economy
posted by demonic winged headgear at 5:41 PM on April 22, 2021 [1 favorite]

Perhaps this book: On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane by Emily Guendelsberger (2020)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42779084-on-the-clock
posted by demonic winged headgear at 5:44 PM on April 22, 2021