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题名/责任者:

Left to our own devices : coping with insecure work in a digital age / Julia Ticona.

出版发行项:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

ISBN:

9780190691288

ISBN:

9780197631003

载体形态项:

xi, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

其他载体形态:

Online version: Ticona, Julia. Left to our own devices New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] 9780190691301

个人责任者:

Ticona, Julia, author.

论题主题:

Gig economy-United States.

论题主题:

Self-employed-United States.

论题主题:

Internet-Economic aspects-United States.

论题主题:

Labor market-United States.

论题主题:

Precarious employment-United States.

中图法分类号:

F249.712.1

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-159) and index.

内容附注:

Introduction -- The Digital Hustle -- After Access -- Comparative Advantages -- Suspending the Hustle -- Conclusion: Beyond Inclusion.

摘要附注:

"The Digital Hustle When we met in the middle of a rare snowstorm in Washington, DC, in January, Charlie was bundled up against the cold in his Carhartt jacket, thick socks, and sturdy work boots, with a knit cap pulled down over his ears. As he peeled off his many layers in our booth at a Dunkin' Donuts, he apologized for smelling like cigarette smoke, saying that bad winter weather always makes him think a little harder about quitting for good. Charlie explained that smoking was a small comfort in what he felt were uncertain times. "It's like, every day you just you walk out your door and you're already stressed. Because we never know, even these days, you never know what the next day is going to be like. You have no idea. I'm just trying to keep my guys busy." Charlie's "guys" are a small crew of two or three manual workers he tried to keep in regular work through a patchwork of contracting, demolition gigs, and moving jobs. Looking older than his forty-seven years, Charlie told me about how he came to start his own home contracting and moving business after he left his union construction job when his boss was replaced by someone much younger than him. He enjoyed the freedom and independence that came with "being his own boss": being my own boss, I don't have to deal with nobody. And for me, because I'm forty-seven, I can't deal with a twenty- or thirty-year-old, some young kid like you being my boss"--

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