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When gig work feels like modern slavery

I drive for three different apps and work 70 hours a week but still can't afford my rent increase, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm just a digital sharecropper who will never get ahead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The promise of entrepreneurial freedom collides with the reality of platform dependency and economic precarity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The gig economy — structural view?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.