Book review: Hustle and gig: struggling and surviving in the sharing economy by Alexandrea Ravenelle

Lenhard, Johannes (2020) Book review: Hustle and gig: struggling and surviving in the sharing economy by Alexandrea Ravenelle. LSE Review of Books (11 May 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy, Alexandrea Ravenelle offers a new ethnographic study that examines working life for people in the gig economy that was so lauded as a way out of unemployment after the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on Uber, TaskRabbit, Kitchensurfing and AirBnB. Johannes Lenhard praises the breadth of sectors covered and the depth of ethnographic detail offered in this book, which opens space for further research into how gig work could, or indeed does, work better.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Date Deposited:	16 Jun 2020 15:12
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 02:11
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104884

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