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Remote-Working Laptop Entrepreneurs In The Gig Economy

by Beverly Yuen Thompson
language: english
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, June of 2021 ‧
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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 newspaper articles that highlight beach-bound, bikinied workers, adorned with laptops, this book asks, what are the social implications of adopting the subcultural lifestyle known as ‘Digital Nomadism’? 

This book explores the inherent social problems with this lifestyle. Examining how Digital Nomadism provides an individualistic fix for an otherwise downwardly-mobile millennial generation, Thompson demonstrates how this generation increasingly postpone markers of adulthood—purchasing a house, getting married, or having children—because of their financial insecurities. Thompson highlights that while being a Digital Nomad can provide a high quality of life while living on the beaches of Thailand, such avenues obscures their inabilities to afford a comfortable lifestyle in their home countries.

Digital Nomads Living On The Margins

Remote-Working Laptop Entrepreneurs In The Gig Economy

by Beverly Yuen Thompson

Property Description
ISBN: 9781800715479
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Release Date: June of 2021
Language: English
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility:
Collection: Emerald Studies In Alternativity And Marginalization
Categories: eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
EAN: 9781800715479
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