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020 $a9781250135087 (pbk.) :$cNT$630
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 4$aHC110.I55$bH55 2017
082 04$a331.10973$222
100 1 $aHill, Steven,$d1958-$eauthor.
245 10$aRaw deal :$bhow the Uber economy and runaway capitalism are screwing American workers /$cSteven Hill.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Griffin,$c2015.
300 $a326 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aFirst edition: October 2015--title-page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aEvery day, innovative entrepreneurs pioneer bold economic ideas that change the way we live and work. Companies like Google, Apple, Oracle, Facebook and Twitter aren't the only ones shaping our economic future--there's another trendemerging that will change the ways we work and live. The sharing economy, or the collaborative consumption economy, includes companies like TaskRabbit, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Zaarly, and DocVacay who are purveyors of an economic system that revolves around sharing human and physical resources. This new aspect to the economy, Steven Hill argues, is a dead end for U.S. workers, as well as for the national economy. In Raw Deal, Hill shows the sharing economy is a new and troublingcomponent to what is an overall bad economy that undermines workers. Vulnerable freelancers and day laborers hire themselves out for ever smaller jobs and amounts of money, and it is only the companies who hire them who reap the big benefits. Hill argues that we must shift the support for American workers to one that is individual-based rather than workplace-based. Countering the onset of the freelance society and the new economy is the new civil rights and labor struggles of our time. This important book answers these questions and provides pragmatic solutions to adapt our economic system to its new realities, launching a new civil rights struggle capable of transforming the freelance society into a stakeholder society--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aInformation technology$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
650 0$aNew business enterprises$zUnited States.
650 0$aEntrepreneurship$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States.
650 0$aWorking class$zUnited States.
650 0$aLabor$zUnited States.
651 0$aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y2009-.