[Themaintainers] TODAY: Wed, May 27 @ 11am CT | Roundtable: "The Gig Economy, A Precarious Form of Maintenance"

[Jessica Meyerson]

Dear Fellow Maintainers,

Please join us TODAY, Wednesday, May 27 @ 9amPT/10amMT/11amCT/12pm ET for a
discussion about the “gig economy” and the ways that maintenance Gig
workers (shoppers, drivers, etc) sustain daily life, and as such have been
recognized as “essential workers.” This dependence on gig workers raises an
important question: what steps do companies, governments, and individuals
take to maintain gig workers--or, in other words, to ensure that this form
of labor is sustainable?


This discussion will feature two experts on gig economies in the United
States and Europe:

Katie J. Wells <https://www.katiejwells.net/> is a Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the
Working Poor. She writes about the changing relationship between cities,
technology, and work. She has published findings
<https://katiejwells.net/research> on smart cities, housing policy, and
Washington, D.C. history in academic journals such as Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space and Urban Geography, and has discussed the
real-time impacts of my research in media <https://katiejwells.net/media>
stories in The Washington Post, National Public Radio, ABC National News,
CityLab, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others.

Niels van Doorn
<https://www.uva.nl/profiel/d/o/n.a.j.m.vandoorn/n.a.j.m.vandoorn.html> is
an Assistant Professor in New Media and Digital Culture at the University
of Amsterdam. He is also the Principal Investigator  of the Platform Labor
<https://platformlabor.net/> research project (2018-2023), funded by the
European Research Council. His research examines how digital platforms are
transforming labor, social reproduction and urban governance in
post-welfare societies.


*Call-in information: *

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87597003640

Password: maintain

This roundtable will be recorded and made available on the Maintainers
website after the event. The webinar series is free to attend and open to
all.

We ask that all attendees review the Festival of Maintenance Code of Conduct
<https://festivalofmaintenance.org.uk/code-of-conduct/> and the Maintainers
Code of Conduct <http://themaintainers.org/miii-code-of-conduct> prior to
joining the Zoom.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
We look forward to talking to you soon.

On behalf of Festival of Maintenance and The Maintainers,
Laura James

Naomi Turner

Jackie Pease

Andrew Russell

Lee Vinsel

Jessica Meyerson

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*Jessica Meyerson*
Director for Research & Strategy | Educopia Institute <http://educopia.org/>
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Working from Austin, TX
jessica[at]educopia[dot]org | 512-864-4575
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