Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250135087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Major eye opener ! Silicon Valley is turning us all into their "errand boys". Slavery has been re-instated --and the new plantation is your smart phone and you bid your services down to competeagainst other slaves to a make a dollar to go fetch your master's laundry or food.We are now offici. "A Look at the Dark Side of the Uber Economy" according to Steve King. Hill’s book is a non-stop attack on Uber, Airbnb and any other company or person who offers contract work or suggests contract/freelance work isn't awful. It ignores or dismisses the advantages sharing and on-demand economy companies provide both consumers and worker. Insert Name Here said Really Enlightening. Really enlightening I appreciate the author bringing this to my attention. It never occurred to me that this gig economy has several major downsides. We're turning our whole society into a giant Dollar Store by bidding the value of our labor down to the lowest common denom
The United States is turning into a nation of 1099 workers who eke out a living driving cars, renting rooms and running errands for people who apparently have better things to do with their time. political economy. In this unfortunate tipping point, the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few results in economic implosion because the 99 percent can’t afford to buy anything the 1 percent has to sell. Remote corporate algorithms run riot!” Ralph Nader“We love to talk about technological innovation and disruption, yet rarely do we understand and discuss the actual consequences across broader society. Steven Hill perfectly captures the anxiety of the American worker in today’s increasingly digital economy.
Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers,by veteran journalist Steven Hill, is an exposé that challenges conventional thinking, and the hype celebrating this new economy, by showing why the vision of the "techno sapien" leaders and their Ayn Rand libertarianism is a dead end. But this "share the crumbs" economy is just the tip of a looming iceberg that the middle class is drifting toward. In Raw Deal, Steven Hill proposes pragmatic policy solutions to transform the US economy and its safety net and social contract, launching a new kind of deal to restore power back into the hands of American workers.. "What's going to happen to my job?"That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Now a weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street greed is thrusting upon us
His articles and media interviews have appeared in theNew York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Financial Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Project Syndicate, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Politico, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, Salon, Slate, BBC, C-SPAN, Fox News, NPR, PBS, Democracy Now, Austrian Public Broadcasting and many others. He lives in San Francisco, CA. . He is a veteran jo