Audio Fiction About the Future of Gig Work

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  • 1

    Clustr

    The Truth

    19:43 | Apr 9th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    A new app allows you to earn real money just by participating in social events. But what the events are—and who shows up—makes it difficult to know what’s real, and what’s just another gig in the gig ...Show More

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    What if there’s an gig work app that paid you to be part of a crowd? What would human relationships look like? This short fiction paints a picture of that possibility.

  • 2

    Task Rabbit

    Get Rich Nick

    56:29 | Sep 10th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Get Rich Nick gets a little dirty this week as the boys earn money using the Task Rabbit app. Task Rabbit is the app where anyone can ask you to do (pretty much) anything in exchange for money. Is it ...Show More

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    This is a funny podcast where the premise is two guys called Nick doing odd jobs like Twitch streaming and going on Price is Right to see how much money they can make. Think a comedic Simple Life circ...Show More

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    2. Delivery Hero

    Hustled

    31:43 | May 25th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    Sara gets a job as a foodora courier to find out what life is like when your boss is an app. On the job she uncovers some unexpected challenges and risks. In this episode, we meet several - much more ...Show More

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    Horrifying. You pretty much are paying Foodora to work when you're a food courier.

  • 4

    Deliverance

    In This Economy?

    19:31 | Jan 8th, 2020

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    After a long night delivering pizzas, a driver clocks out of their meal delivery app only to discover a bizarre (and catchy) archive of customer feedback. • CREDITS Writers ...........................Show More

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    MY NEW FAVE PODCAST! This is an audio fiction podcast where each episode is a mini story about gig work created by...gig workers. This particular one is a musical about tipping gig workers.

  • 5

    Tens of millions of people in the US are either out of a job or still working without meaningful protections, benefits, or wage increases. And if something goes wrong, workers mostly have to figure it...Show More

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    It's devastating how labour rights and benefits have eroded over the last decades. The notion of a pension is a long-lost concept in the current generation of workers. Uber and Doordash aren't reinven...Show More

  • 6

    713: Made to Be Broken

    This American Life

    59:51 | Aug 9th, 2020

    12 recommendations

    From the moment we wake up in the morning there are a trillion rules — big and little — governing our lives. But sometimes, we encounter one we just can't abide by. In a pitched moment of rule-questio...Show More

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    NATASHAAA!!! 🤣🤣🤣

  • 7

    How the Gig Economy Won in California

    What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

    22:56 | Nov 6th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    Companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have always argued that their workers are independent contractors, not employees. This distinction has been crucial in their rise from startups to multi-billion...Show More

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    While everyone’s attention was on the presidential race, Prop 22 that reinforces delivery and driver gig worker classification as temp contractors instead of employees passed in California. The tech c...Show More

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