Uberworked and Underpaid

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How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy

By Trebor Scholz

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Uberworked and Underpaid explores the rise of digital labour through companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk, which promise autonomy and flexibility but often deliver precarious work conditions. Trebor Scholz critically analyses the contingent nature of digital work and the exploitation underpinning the so-called sharing economy, including free labour on platforms such as Facebook. The book serves as a call to action to challenge wage theft, rethink unions, and promote worker-owned platform cooperatives to build a fairer future of work.
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This book is essential reading for students, academics, labour activists, and anyone interested in the future of work, digital economy, and workers’ rights in the contemporary platform-driven landscape.

This 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.

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This book is about the rise of digital labour. 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 labour on sites like Facebook, to take these myths apart.

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.

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, Uberworked and Underpaid shows that it is time to stop wage theft and "crowd fleecing," rethink wealth distribution, and address the urgent question of how digital labour should be regulated and how workers from Berlin, Barcelona, Seattle, and São Paulo can act in solidarity to defend their rights.

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Praised as a timely and groundbreaking critique of platform capitalism, Uberworked and Underpaid combines deep analysis with practical solutions. Zeynep Tufekci commends Scholz for linking cooperativism with the digital economy, while Frank Pasquale highlights the book's clear-eyed blueprint for platform cooperativism beyond sharing economy myths. The work passionately exposes the precarious, exploitative nature of digital labour and advocates for worker solidarity and rights.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745653570

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 October 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 386g

Pages: 242

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Trebor Scholz

About the Author

Trebor Scholz 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.