Working on Overdrive: The Future of Platforms and Working Time
It might be a bit of a hunker down message, but it’s about focusing on people’s needs: security, resilience, and minimising risks.
gig economy
Reclaiming Work: Can Cooperatives Overthrow the Gig Economy?
The pandemic has brought into focus the stark conditions and precarity faced by workers in the gig-economy. When the dust settles, can these workers who were at the frontlines of this crisis build a fairer future? The workers featured in Reclaiming Work believe so.
Is the Future of Urban Agriculture Up in the Air?
The 2009 report — which was sponsored by several organizations, including an urban agriculture organization called RUAF — helps me imagine how we could turn the gig economy into the subsistence-plus and self-reliance economy. Urban agriculture might just offer a pleasurable and affirming way to supplement incomes with sales or barter, or to offset the need to spend hard cash on food.
How Freelancers Are Reinventing Work Through New Collective Enterprises
Like an extended smashing of atoms, the 9-to-5 job market has shattered and splintered over the past 25 years in ways that have both liberated and trapped millions of workers.
Mutualized Solutions for the Precariat
Large companies have long sought to boost profits by converting their employees into “independent contractors,” allowing them to avoid paying benefits.
Working Alone Together
For many, a permanent state of social economic uncertainty is the new normal.