03856cam a2200457 i 4500 BJBSDDR 20250626152309.0 ta 150420s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 9781250071583 (hardcover) 1250071585 (hardcover) eng DLC eng HC 110 H648r 2015 331.10973 Hill, Steven John, 1958- 2911 Raw deal : how the "Uber economy" and runaway capitalism are screwing American workers / Steven Hill. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015. 326 pages ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-319) and index. Introduction : Earthquake in San Francisco -- Back to the Future in the 1099 Economy -- Airbnb and the sharing economy: economic savior or ... dead end? -- The ticking time bomb of Uber -- Race to the bottom, with TaskRabbit and Elance-Upwork -- Underground: the road to Hell Is paved with silk -- Robots and techno sapiens are coming for your job -- The specter of the economic singularity -- The new economy visionaries: leaders leading us ... where? -- Labor's dilemma -- Solutions I: a new social contract for the new economy -- Solutions II: making the new economy work in the information and innovation age -- Conclusion: Maria's life matters! Long live Maria Fernandes! "Every day, innovative entrepreneurs pioneer bold economic ideas that change the way we live and work. Companies like Google, Apple, Oracle, Facebook and Twitter aren't the only ones shaping our economic future--there's another trend emerging that will change the ways we work and live. The "sharing economy," or the "collaborative consumption economy," includes companies like TaskRabbit, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Zaarly, and DocVacay who are purveyors of an economic system that revolves around sharing human and physical resources. This new aspect to the economy, Steven Hill argues, is a dead end for U.S. workers, as well as for the national economy. In Raw Deal, Hill shows the "sharing economy" is a new and troubling component to what is an overall bad economy that undermines workers. Vulnerable freelancers and day laborers hire themselves out for ever smaller jobs and amounts of money, and it is only the companies who hire them who reap the big benefits. Hill argues that we must shift the support for American workers to one that is individual-based rather than workplace-based. Countering the onset of the freelance society and the new economy is the new civil rights and labor struggles of our time. This important book answers these questions and provides pragmatic solutions to adapt our economic system to its new realities, launching a new civil rights struggle capable of transforming the freelance society into a stakeholder society"-- Provided by publisher. New business enterprises United States. Nuevas empresas comerciales Estados Unidos 15260 Information technology Economic aspects United States. Tecnologías de la información Aspectos económicos Estados Unidos 4427 Entrepreneurship Moral and ethical aspects United States. Emprendimiento Aspectos morales y éticos Estados Unidos 42911 Working class United States. Clase obrera Estados Unidos 1918 Labor United States. Trabajo Estados Unidos 25679 Espíritu empresarial. 3014 United States Economic conditions 2009- Estados Unidos Condiciones económicas 1543 lcc BK 96598 96598 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 0 HC 110 H648r 2015 00000122110 2019-01-21 00:00:00 1 2019-01-21 BK