Book review: Humans as a Service. The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
| Author | Marco Biasi |
| DOI | 10.1177/1388262718819586 |
| Date | 01 December 2018 |
| Published date | 01 December 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Book reviews |
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Author biography
Dorottya Szikra is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Social Sciences of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include social policy, family policy and the Central
and Eastern European welfare states.
Jeremias Prassl, Humans as a Service. The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2018, 199 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-879701-2
Reviewed by: Marco Biasi, University of Milan, Italy
DOI: 10.1177/1388262718819586
In Humans as a Service. The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy, Jeremias Prassl
addresses the rather recent phenomenon of the gig economy, which is currently highly disputed by
both scholars and the mass media.
The book, which comprises six chapters, an introduction and an epilogue, is structured into
three main parts. The first part describes the main features of life and work in the gig economy; the
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