Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times
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Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

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Alexandrea J. Ravenelle (Author)  

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The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers-a sociological exploration that reads like a novel. This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners-gig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborers-do when the economy suddenly collapses. In Side Hustle Safety Net, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle builds on interviews with nearly two hundred gig-based and precarious workers, conducted during the height of the pandemic, to uncover the unique challenges they faced in unprecedented times. This book looks at both the officially unemployed and the "forgotten jobless"-a digital-era demographic that turned to side hustles-and reveals how they fared. CARES Act assistance allowed some to change careers, start businesses, perhaps transform their lives. However, gig workers and those involved in "polyemployment" found themselves at the mercy of outdated unemployment systems, vulnerable to scams, and attempting dubious survival strategies. Ultimately, Side Hustle Safety Net argues that the rise of the gig economy, partnered with underemployment and economic instability, has increased worker precarity with disastrous consequences.
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy.
  • Contributor: Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • ISBN13: 9780520387300
  • Number of Pages: 344
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x23mm
  • Packaged Weight: 272
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Release Date: 2023-11-21
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Alexandrea J. Ravenelle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy.

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