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Author Adams-Prassl, Jeremias, author

Title Humans as a service : the promise and perils of work in the gig economy / Jeremias Prassl
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Contents Work on demand -- Doublespeak -- Lost in the crowd -- The innovation paradox -- Disrupting the disruptors -- Levelling the playing field
Summary Is crowdsourcing the future of work? This book offers a lively and critical account of the gig economy: its promises and realities, what is at stake, and how we can ensure that customers, workers, platforms, and society at large benefit from this global and growing phenomenon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from front matter (University press scholarship online, viewed April 23, 2018)
Subject Part-time employment.
Flexible work arrangements.
Temporary employment.
Quality of work life.
Crowdsourcing.
Crowdsourcing
crowdsourcing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Crowdsourcing
Flexible work arrangements
Quality of work life
Temporary employment
Part-time employment
Economics.
Industry.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192517388
0192517384
9780191859458
0191859451
Other Titles Promise and perils of work in the gig economy