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Long download timePublisher:Between the Lines, 2019Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library ServiceRunning Time: 07:32 hrsNarrator: Nathalie TorielPublisher:BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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- Author: Slee, TomDate:Created2019Summary:
The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the 'old order'—and they've succeeded in effecting the 'biggest change in the American workforce in over a century,' according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. But this new wave of technology companies is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. In What's Yours Is Mine, internationally-acclaimed technologist Tom Slee argues the socalled sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk. This revised and updated edition of Slee's original 'smart and searing critique' includes a new foreword by the author.
Subject(s): Media & Internet | Political science | Political Advocacy | Political Economy | Political ProcessOriginal Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Between the LinesLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9781771134439, 1771134437
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