Does the sharing economy increase inequality within the eighty percent?: findings from a qualitative study of platform providers

By J. Schor. 2017

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Enabling Value Co-Creation in the Sharing Economy: The Case of Mobike (2017, background): “Some of these studies focus on the passive roles played by prosumers that could be ascribed to having no other available career options [39], or mostly pursuing monetary incentives [40].”
Digital Nomads Employment in the Online Gig Economy (2018, background): “Schor (2017) found that privileged middleclass participants were able to make significant amounts of money on platforms such as Airbnb when they have fairly luxurious lodgings to rent out – some were able to earn $30,000 (three to four times what they would earn on a long-term rental), on top of…”
The “sharing” economy: labor, inequality, and social connection on for‐profit platforms (2017, background): “It also found that gig workers are much more likely to be Black and Latinex than White; however, that categorization excludes Airbnb hosts, who we find are disproportionately White (Cansoy & Schor, 2017).”
Probing Precarious Work: Theory, Research, and Politics (2017, background): “…of mobile devices has also fueled the growth of the “on-demand,” “gig,” or “sharing economy,” allowing firms to use digital platforms as their organizational structure, redefining workers as independent contractors who can be made to assume risks previously handled by the firm (Schor, 2015).”
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts (2021, background): “M. Henry et al. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 38 (2021) 1–21 6 primarily, a market exchange mediated by (digital) platforms to enable temporary access to under-utilized (‘idle’) resources (see Curtis, Mont, 2020; Frenken and Schor, 2017; acc. to Polanyi, 1957).”
Platform Real Estate: theory and practice of new urban real estate markets (2018, background): “This is already evident in some platforms today, including the racial contours of Airbnb (Kakar, Voelz, Wu, & Franco, 2018) or ‘gig economy’ building maintenance platforms like TaskRabbit or Handy (Graham & Shaw, 2017; Schor, 2017; Thebault-Spieker, Terveen, & Hecht, 2017).”