After the Gig

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Juliet Schor and her team have done something extraordinary: their intensive research has let them understand what the sharing economy really feels like to its participants, and their storytelling ability lets the rest of us make complete sense of the data. In addition, they provide a workable plan for how to fulfill the promise of gig work as a part of a supportive, useful, fair economy. This book will redefine the field."—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy "Cutting through the hype of the sharing economy and anxieties about gig work, Schor offers a deeply researched and thoughtful account of what promised (or threatened) to revolutionize work and ownership, but probably won't.  A must-read for anyone thinking about the future of work."—Yochai Benkler, Professor, Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University "This book is incredibly important. The story that Schor tells is further enhanced in that she tells it—not just across sectors—but also across positionalities."—Veena Dubal,  Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of Law "While others have batted around the gig economy with melodrama and polemic, Juliet Schor comes to the subject with incisive, challenging questions for both the alarm-raisers and the boosters. As a partisan in these debates myself, I've trusted no scholar as much as she to keep me honest."—Nathan Schneider, author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy