โ Scribed by Sarah Kessler
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A millennial business journalist takes a colorful, character-driven dive deep into the gig economy.
More than one in three American workers is now a freelancer, and the gig economy, where workers are hired by the job --without the guarantee of steady hours or benefits--has quickly become an essential and seemingly permanent part of the U.S. labor market. High-profile, deep-pocketed tech startups like Uber and Airbnb are constantly in the news for the disruption they bring to the industries they overturn, but no one has yet zeroed in on the effects of this disruption on the largely millennial workforce carrying it out.
In the tradition of the great business narratives of our time, Gigged offers a deeply-sourced, story-driven account of this new economy as it has been experienced by real people working in a range of professions. Weaving together the voices and experiences of influential tech entrepreneurs, top-flight economists, and in...
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