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Gig economy

Here are entered works on economic activity that often involves the use of digital platforms to employ temporary workers on an ad-hoc basis. Works on the employment of musicians are entered under Musicians -- Employment.

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• Cooperation

• Temporary employment
• Flexible work arrangements

• Crowd employment (Gig economy)
• Platform economy
• Platform work (Gig economy)
• Sharing economy (Gig economy)
• Gig worker

• The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), by Jamie Woodcock (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2020), ed. by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press Direct)

• Towards a Fairer Gig Economy (London: Meatspace Press, 2017), ed. by Mark Graham and Joe Shaw (multiple formats wth commentary at meatspacepress.com)

• Research Recommendations to Facilitate Distributed Work (1994), by National Research Council Technology and Telecommuting Issues and Impacts Committee (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Economic Direct Democracy: A Framework to End Poverty and Maximize Well Being (c2014), by John Boik (PDF with commentary at principledsocietiesproject.org)
• "The Power of Neighborhood" and the Commons (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, c2014), by P. M. (PDF at o500.org)
• The Ethics of Coöperation (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by James Hayden Tufts (Gutenberg text)
• Industrial Co-operation: the Story of a Peaceful Revolution (ninth edition; Manchester: Co-operative Union Ltd. 1921), ed. by Catherine Webb, contrib. by L. L. Price (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Model Town: or, The Right and Progressive Organization of Industry for the Production of Material and Moral Wealth (Cambridge: Printed for the author, 1869), by Edward Barnard Bassett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
  • HTML in Japan
  • text at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• An Outline of the Various Social Systems and Communities Which Have Been Founded on the Principle of Co-Operation (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844), by Mary Hennell, contrib. by Charles Bray (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Solidarismus: Natürliche Wirtschaftliche Erlösung des Menschen (in German; Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1903), by Rudolf Diesel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Story of Co-Operation (third revised edition; New York: Co-Operative League of America, 1921), by Agnes D. Warbasse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Village Co-Operation: A Jubilee Sketch of the Greenfield Co-Operative Society Ltd., 1856-1906 (Manchester, UK: Co-operative Wholesale Society, Manchester, 1906), by David Lawton (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• The World a Department Store: A Story of Life under a Coöperative System (Lewiston, ME; and Boston: B. Peck, c1900), by Bradford Peck, illust. by Harry C. Wilkinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Cityless and Countryless World: An Outline of Practical Co-Operative Individualism (Holstein, IA: Gilmore and Olerich, c1893), by Henry Olerich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Key of Industrial Co-Operative Government (published under "Pruning Knife" pseudonym; St. Louis, MO: The author, 1886), by Henry Francis Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Address to All the Colored Citizens of the United States (Philadelphia: Printed for the author by King and Baird, 1846), by John B. Meachum
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change: Experiences from Rural Latin America (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2017), ed. by Marcela Vásquez-León, Brian J. Burke, and Timothy J. Finan, trans. by Maisa C. Taha (page images with commentary at Arizona)

• Grain Growers' Coöperation in Western Canada (Harvard Economic Studies v32; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928), by Harald S. Patton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Uberfication of the University (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), by Gary Hall (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• The History of Co-Operation (revised and completed; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by George Jacob Holyoake
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML in the UK
• History of the Stalybridge Good Intent Co-operative Socirty Limited, 1859-1909 (Manchester, UK: Co-operative Printing Society, 1909), by J. H. Hinchliffe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Self-Help by the People: The History of the Rochdale Pioneers (tenth edition; London: Allen and Unwin, 1922), by George Jacob Holyoake (HTML in the UK)

• The Big Boasting Battle, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Velma Swanston Howard, illust. by Mary Hamilton Frye (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education Through Economic Cooperation (with revised statistics; New York et al.: Harper and Row., ca. 1960), by Moses Coady (PDF at stfx.ca)
• Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education Through Economic Cooperation (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1939), by Moses Coady (page images at stfx.ca)

• The E-Newsletter of Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (eventually renamed "Mother Pelican"), ed. by Luis T. Gutierrez (full serial archives)
• Annals of Collective Economy (partial serial archives)

• The Commons: Economic Alternatives in the Digital Age (London: University of Westminster Press, 2020), by Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR
  • multiple formats at Google

• The Granger Movement; A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (reprint; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1963), by Solon J. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Granger Movement: A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (Harvard Historical Studies v19; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913), by Solon J. Buck (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Agricultural Faggot: A Collection of Papers on Agricultural Subjects (Westminster: P. S. King and Son, 1913), by R. H. Rew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Outline of the Various Social Systems and Communities Which Have Been Founded on the Principle of Co-Operation (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844), by Mary Hennell, contrib. by Charles Bray (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Social Destiny of Man: or, Theory of the Four Movements (with an added treatise and outline by Brisbane; New York: R. M. Dewitt and C. Blanchard, 1857), by Charles Fourier, trans. by Henry Clapp, contrib. by Albert Brisbane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian Commonwealth (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), by John Minter Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A System of Accounts for a Small Consumers' Co-Operative (New York: Co-Operative League of America, ca. 1918), by Earl Browder (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Third Estate (1999), by David Rodgers (PDF in the UK)
• The ABC of Co-Operative Housing (New York: Co-Operative League, c1924), by Agnes D. Warbasse (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Third Estate (1999), by David Rodgers (PDF in the UK)

• A Golden Goal? Uniting Supporters and Their Clubs (1999), by Jonathan Michie (PDF in the UK)
• The Third Estate (1999), by David Rodgers (PDF in the UK)
• E-Mutualism? Or the Tragedy of the Dot.Commons? (2000), by Bill Thompson (HTML at medium.com)
• What is Mutualism? (New York: Vanguard Press, 1927), by Clarence Lee Swartz and Mutualist Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Mutualism: The Third Way, by Peter Kellner (text in the UK)

• Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2010), by Julia Steets (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Nature Link)

• Socialisme Chinois: Le Philosophe Meh-Ti et l'Idée de Solidarité (in French; London: Luzac and Co., 1907), by Alexandra David-Néel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Solidarismus: Natürliche Wirtschaftliche Erlösung des Menschen (in German; Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1903), by Rudolf Diesel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Human Rights, Solidarity and Subsidiarity: Essays Toward a Social Ontology, by Carlos Eduardo Maldonado (PDF at crvp.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.