Overview
In this assignment, I want you to think about how inequality has effects on work and labor. One of the most marked characteristics of rising inequality is the the increased precarization of stable, well-paid employment. Tied to an extensive financialization of the economy (whereby profits are primarily derived from financial markets rather than production), contemporary inequality is lived as much in the household as in the workplace, wherever it may be. Here, you will see one example in the form of work in the gig economy.
You will start this assignment by reading the paper by Alexandrea Ravenelle ("Sharing economy workers: selling, not sharing Download Sharing economy workers: selling, not sharing", Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society).