The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence

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About the Editors
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Acknowledgments
I Introduction: The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence
	The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence
II History: We Were Always Gig Workers
	1 Behind the Wheel and in the Streets: Technological Transformation, Exit, and Voice in the New York City Taxi Industry
	2 More than a Gig? Ride-hailing in Los Angeles County
	3 Care in the Platform Economy: Interrogating the Digital Organisation of Domestic Work in India
	4 Sex Work/Gig Work: A Feminist Analysis of Precarious Domina Labor in the Gig Economy
III Ideology: Thinking Like a Gig Economist
	5 “The Future Demands We All Become Prolific Artists”: Cultural Ideals of Gig Work in Popular Management Literature
	6 “Uber for Radio?”: Professionalism and Production Cultures in Podcasting
	7 Good People “Belong Anywhere”: Airbnb’s Emerging Neofascism
	8 ‘Uber’ University and Labor Recomposition: Struggling Notes on (Dis)organized Academia
IV Media: Negotiating the Gig Economy
	9 “¿Qué hay detrás de todo?”: Opacity, Precarity, and the Unwaged Labor of Latina Audiobook Narrators
	10 Liquid Assets: Camming and Cashing In on Desire in the Digital Age
	11 This is Gig Leisure: Games, Gamification, and Gig Labor
	12 Uprooting Uber: From “Data Fracking” to Data Commons
V Struggles: Organizing in the Gig Economy
	13 Platform Organizing: Tech Worker Struggles and Digital Tools for Labour Movements
	14 Competition, Collaboration and Combination: Differences in Attitudes to Collective Organization Among Offline and Online Platform Workers
	15 Precarity Beyond the Gig: From University Halls to Tech Campuses
	16 The Cycle of Struggle: Food Platform Strikes in the UK 2016–18
VI Conclusion: We Are All Gig Workers
	Conclusion: We Are All Gig Workers
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