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David Greene talks to sociologist Alexandrea Ravenelle about her book Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy, which examines how companies treat their front-line workers. (Listening time, 7:21) |
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The gig economy and zero-hours contracts have changed the nature of poverty in Britain. Poverty statistics do not take into account people going for weeks without pay
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Successive governments have completely swallowed the 'entrepreneurial society' propaganda spouted by neoliberal economists. As a result, laws and regulations that protect the permanent workforce don’t apply here. Not even the minimum wage. Clearly this has been exploited by employers."
gig
- : a job usually for a specified time; especially : an entertainer's engagement
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Gigs travelling at night would normally carry two oil lamps with thick glass, known as gig-lamps. Gig carts are constructed with the driver's seat sitting higher than the level of the shafts. Traditionally, a gig is more formal than a village cart or a meadowbrook cart. A light gig can be used for carriage racing. OED gives the date of first known reference to a horse-drawn gig as 1791. There are several types of gig, including:gig lamp
Noun[edit]
- (now rare or historical) Either of the lamps on either side of a gig carriage; a headlamp. [quotations ▼]
- (in the plural, dated) Spectacles.
Definition of a Side Hustle. A side hustle is any type of employment undertaken in addition to one's full-time job. ... Side hustles are often things a person is passionate about, rather day a typical day job worked in order to make ends meet.
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