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The Gig Economy (Hardcover)
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The Gig Economy (Hardcover)
Series: The Economy Key Ideas
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The "gig economy" is a relatively recent term coined to describe a
range of working arrangements that have previously been denoted as
precarious, flexible and contingent. These may include casual
workers, temporary agency workers, those on zero-hours contracts
and dependent contractors. This books seeks to get behind the
contemporary buzz surrounding the term and provide some theoretical
and empirical analysis of the gig work phenomenon. The book seeks
to assess more critically some of the rhetorical claims made about
gig work and to provide a balanced appraisal of the ramifications
for individuals, employers and the economy and society in general
of an increasingly insecure workforce. The regulatory framework, in
particular, is examined and is shown to have lagged behind crucial
developments in the gig economy, with many labour laws still
historically rooted to the notion that a worker has to be an
employee to be covered by employment rights. The authors show that
in many respects there is nothing new about the gig economy and
that its growth in recent years was in some sense predictable.
Perhaps its real significance, they argue, is its potential as a
business model to "gig-ize" other business operations far beyond
relatively low-skilled work. When combined with automation and
digitalization, the gig economy presents us with an opportunity to
re-evalute our understanding of the nature of work.
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