Precariedad y pérdida de derechos

Choose your schedule, choose your job, be your own boss, decide how much you want to earn... welcome to the collaborative economy, a nebulous set of platforms and applications that promise innovation, transcend capitalism, bring entrepreneurship to the masses... In this book, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle shares the personal stories of nearly eighty, mostly young, workers from Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing. Their testimonies highlight the volatility of work in the gig economy: the autonomy that these workers expected to find is usurped by the need to maintain response rates and a level of acceptance that are approved by the algorithm. Ravenelle examines the different types of worker in this economy (from success stories to those who have to moonlight to earn a minimum income), as well as their costs and benefits and social impact, and shows that the collaborative economy does indeed invalidate generations of protection for workers and it is just a new version of precarious work with a minimum wage.