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What's Yours is Mine : Against the Sharing Economy, 2nd Edition

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  • Narrator: Toriel, Nathalie
    Publisher:
    Between the Lines, 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 07:32 hrs
    Narrator: Nathalie Toriel
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Slee, Tom
    Date:
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    2019
    Summary:

    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.

    Original Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Between the Lines
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771134439, 1771134437