Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age
Julia Ticona's new book examines how gig workers use digital technologies like smartphones and laptops to navigate a precarious and flexible labor market, and how these technologies have transformed the way we work.
In this video, Annenberg School for Communication Assistant Professor Julia Ticona, Ph.D., discusses the topics covered in her new book, Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age (Oxford University Press). The book explores work in an insecure economy where both high- and low-wage gig workers earn money piecemeal, and the role that digital technologies surrounding these types of labor play in creating and reproducing social inequalities.
