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Topic: gig economy

Ivy, living her best life (Illustration by Salon / Annie Bennett / Dikas Studio)

My dog taught me about rental culture

Annie Bennett
Police officer with a gun holstered at a public event (Getty Images/Roman Studio)

Guns for hire in the gig economy

Cara Michelle Smith
Republican presidential candidate businessman Vivek Ramaswamy speaks to guests at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition Spring Kick-Off on April 22, 2023 in Clive, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Vivek brings gig economy to politics

Rae Hodge
A food courier of Uber Eats rides a bicycle (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Uber Eats couriers report lower wages

Ashlie D. Stevens
Empty swings at a park (Getty Images)

US population growth slowest since 1918

Igor Derysh
Luz Laguna, Isabelle Ramos and Leonardo Diaz, left to right, with Mobile Workers Alliance hold signs in support as app based gig workers held a driving demonstration with 60-70 vehicles blocking Spring Street in front of Los Angeles City Hall urging voters to vote no on Proposition 22, a November ballot measure that would classify app-based drivers as independent contractors and not employees or agents, providing them with an exemption from Californias AB 5. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

A national setback for labor, via Cali

Nicole Karlis
Robert Reich in “Saving Capitalism” (Netflix)

Robert Reich: Vote NO on CA Prop 22

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Rideshare drivers demonstrate against rideshare companies Uber and Lyft during a car caravan protest on August 6, 2020 (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Lyft janitors struggle to find work

Nicole Karlis
An Uber Eats delivery person (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)

Gig economy: paving the road to serfdom

Marshall Auerback - Independent Media Institute
Rideshare drivers demonstrate against rideshare companies Uber and Lyft during a car caravan protest on August 6, 2020 (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Drivers dismayed over Uber's win

Nicole Karlis
An Uber Eats delivery person (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)

An Uber Eats glitch underpays workers

Matthew Rozsa
Uber Technologies headquarters in San Francisco, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Uber threatens to leave California

Nicole Karlis
Uber/Lyft drivers conduct a ‘caravan protest' (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers

Nicole Karlis
Rideshare drivers demonstrate against rideshare companies Uber and Lyft during a car caravan protest on August 6, 2020 in Los Angeles. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

The human toll of Uber's low prices

Nicole Karlis
TikTok influencers Marie-Victoire Tiangue and Raphaël Curron ( PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

If banned, TikTok users could lose money

Nicole Karlis
A Shipt logo seen displayed on a smartphone (Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Shipt workers boycott the algorithm

Nicole Karlis
Postmates and Uber Eats couriers (Getty Images/Salon)

Uber wants to eat Postmates

Matthew Rozsa
Man is using ridesharing service app to provide driving service to new customers (Getty Images)

Money tools for people with 2+ jobs

Jackie Lam
Instacart employee Monica Ortega wears gloves while using her cellphone to check orders while picking up groceries from a supermarket for delivery on March 19, 2020 in North Hollywood, California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Grocery delivery workers launch a strike

Nicole Karlis
A taxi driver holds a flare during a protest in front of the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Chamber during a protest calling for the approval of a local new law (PLC 78/2018), to impose new rules for rideshare providers like Uber and 99 Taxi, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 10, 2019. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

How Uber controls Brazil's movement

Liliana Harrington
Some commuters opt to wear respiratory masks during the afternoon commute at Montgomery BART station in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. On Wednesday, one person became the first victim in California to die from the coronavirus disease. Also, the first two cases in San Francisco were reported the following day. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

Coronavirus exposes class war in SF

Nicole Karlis
Vinales town, Casa particular (Getty Images/John Elk III)

Airbnb is "Disneyfying" Havana

David Nemer
Tired bartender (Getty Images)

Millennials bearish on Trump's economy

Nicole Karlis
Lyft Uber car / Police look over the scene of a shooting at 3rd Avenue and Pine Streeton January 22, 2020 in the central business district of Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images/Salon)

Lyft, Uber gouged prices after shooting

Nicole Karlis
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