{"product_id":"9780745653570","title":"Uberworked and Underpaid How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUberworked and Underpaid\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eHow Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrebor Scholz\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Media Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network culture's toughest critics, Trebor Scholz chronicles the work of workers in the \"sharing economy,\" and the free labor on sites like Facebook, to take these myths apart. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this rich, accessible, and provocative book, Scholz exposes the uncaring reality of contingent digital work, which is thriving at the expense of employment and worker rights. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book is meant to inspire readers to join the growing number of worker-owned \"platform cooperatives,\" rethink unions, and build a better future of work. A call to action, loud and clear, \u003ci\u003eUberworked and Underpaid\u003c\/i\u003e shows that it is time to stop wage theft and \"crowd fleecing,\" rethink wealth distribution, and address the urgent question of how digital labor should be regulated and how workers from Berlin, Barcelona, Seattle, and São Paulo can act in solidarity to defend their rights.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrebor Scholz\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. He chairs the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture at The New School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e05 December 2016\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780745653570\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e242\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13.6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44312495947916,"sku":"9780745653570","price":23.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780745653570.jpg?v=1780144982","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780745653570","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}