THE GIG ECONOMY

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Lie in the Label
2. Chapter Two - How Corporations Rewrote the Rules of Work
3. Chapter Three - Uber, Lyft, and the App Hustle Mirage
4. Chapter Four - The Amazon Driver Who Doesn’t Work for Amazon
5. Chapter Five - DoorDash and the Death of the Schedule
6. Chapter Six - From Full-Time to Gig-Time
7. Chapter Seven - No Healthcare, No Leave, No Safety Net
8. Chapter Eight - Injured on the Job? Good Luck
9. Chapter Nine - Taxes, Tips, and Traps
10. Chapter Ten - Algorithm as Boss
11. Chapter Eleven - Ghosted by Your Job
12. Chapter Twelve - AB5 and the California Crackdown
13. Chapter Thirteen - Unionizing Without a Workplace
14. Chapter Fourteen - The Return of the Company Town
15. Chapter Fifteen - The International Scam
16. Chapter Sixteen - What Comes After the Gig
17. Chapter Seventeen - You Work for Who You Can’t See

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Lie in the Label IT STARTED AS a rebrand. Not a law. Not a revolution. Just a quiet change in language. Companies stopped calling people workers. They called them contractors. Partners. Freelancers. Independent. That one stuck. Independent. It sounded good. Empowering and modern. Like you were finally in control of your own work. No boss. No cubicle. No schedule. Just you, an app, and the open road. But behind the branding was something else entirely. Because you didn’t set your wage. You didn’t write the contract. You couldn’t negotiate the terms. You couldn’t talk to HR because there was no HR. There was only an algorithm, and if it didn’t like how you performed, it didn’t...