Archive: Technology

• WCP: The Work Lives of Uber Drivers Are Worse Than You Think

  Uber promises freedom and flexibility to drivers but instead delivers risk, exploitation, and low wages that compel drivers to work long and inconvenient hours. That is what Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen discovered by conducting a groundbreaking series of interviews with 40 Uber drivers in the DC area, highlighted in this week’s Working-Class Perspective.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Declan Cullen, Gig Economy, John Russo, Kafui Attoh, Katie Wells, Precarity, Sharing economy, Sherry Linkon, Technology, Uber, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Universal Basic Income: A “Social Vaccine” for Technological Displacement?

  Take it from someone who witnessed the severe impact of deindustrialization on working-class Americans: lofty rhetoric and grand promises cannot disguise the massive economic displacement that will

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Deindustrialization, Economic displacement, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Russo, Robots, Sherry Linkon, Technology, Unemployment, Universal Basic Income, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives, Youngstown

• WCP: Everyday Encounters: Antagonism in the Sharing Economy

  Both workers and consumers are bearing the brunt of changes to contemporary service industry jobs caused by the advent of the sharing economy. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Diane Negra a

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Amazon, Customer Service, Diane Negra, Digital Platforms, Gig Economy, John Russo, Sharing economy, Sherry Linkon, Technology, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Internet Access and the High Costs of Being Poor

  We are honored that John Russo, our Visiting Scholar for the 2015-16 academic year, brings the renowned Working-Class Perspectives blog to the Kalmanovitz Initiative. The blog is edited by John and

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Alex Russo, John Russo, Technology, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives