The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy

This handbook presents comprehensive theoretical, empirical and historical accounts of the political economy of informal work from the late twentieth century to the present. It examines the rich and varied analysis and critique of the informalization of work, focusing on its most significant theories, intellectual traditions, and authors.

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, NY, USA and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.