Digital nomads living on the margins : remote-working laptop entrepreneurs in the gig economy /

In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers. Digging beneath the superficial...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Beverly Yuen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Emerald studies in alternativity and marginalization.
Temas:
Flexible work arrangements > Social aspects.
Gig economy.
Employees > Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations.
Conditions de travail flexibles > Aspect social.
Économie à la demande.
Personnel > Effets des innovations sur.
Innovations.
Working patterns & practices.
Business & Economics > Labor > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Digital nomads, liquid modernity, and the COVID-19 pandemic
  • chapter 2. Western millennials : demographics and socio-economic status
  • chapter 3. Digital nomads : outcasts of the global bazaar economy
  • chapter 4. Bright sided : positive psychology and its adaptation to digital nomadism
  • chapter 5. Laptops, sunscreen, surfboards, and selfies : travel, tourism, and leisure practices of the digital nomads
  • chapter 6. Seeking same : digital nomads seek community
  • chapter 7. Marginalized identities, social justice, and volun-tourism
  • chapter 8. Digital nomads as canaries in the coalmine : disruption and the future of work and leisure.

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