SOCI 312 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Temporary Work, Jacob Hacker, Gigging
9 Mar 2018
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Taskrabbit: a business that is part of the gig-economy, workers can make money on their own schedules, rather than profession accession. Workers set their own rates, and then company takes 30% Gigging is now become a way of life--the future of american work. Gigging reflects the endlessly personalize-able values of our own era, but it"s social effects are uncertain. Pew study found that 72% of american adults had used at least 1 of 11 sharing or on-demand services in the past year. Gig economy lets humans operate on a person-to-person basis, sharing ideas and sharing business without intermediaires. This appeals to millennials in the futuristic tech economy. Dreamy young people now see unrealized opportunity wherever they go. Hedged career: a kind of gigging career--custom-assembled, financially diffuse, defiant of organizational constraint, but this is also a luxury, available to those who have too many appealing options in life. Airbnb refers to itself as "an economic lifeline for the middle class"
