When we think about organizing precarious “gig” workers, the task seems biblical. The workers may be ready, or not, but the spirit and the flesh are weak. We all bemoan the rise of gig workers. Low pay, few hours, no benefits are some of them, worsened by the uncertainty of a position where you can …
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Labor Department Gigs Workers
New Orleans When talking about the gig economy, a gig is defined as a short-term job, a little something extra even though we have come to find that for some workers all of their work is composed of a series of gigs. Musicians famously called their collection of jobs gigs, but that didn’t mean they …
Sweating Labor in the Gig Economy and People by Tech
New Orleans In a piece about climate change, one author quoted a commonplace statement that the corporate business model in a capitalist economy puts no inherent value on public resources like land, air, and water, so that the costs are for acquisition, extraction, marketing, and delivery without concern for the after affects like global …