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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks Greg- sounds interesting! I told my
neighbour Tom Slee about this because he recently published a book about the
dangers of Uber, Air BnB etc. </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The book is called
<STRONG><EM>"What's Yours is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy"</EM>.</STRONG>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Here is a review of it that sets the stage for
it: </FONT><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="mhtml:{4974279E-D7DF-43B9-AF42-A84FD348FB04}mid://00001493/!x-usc:http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/the-unforeseen-dangers-of-uber-and-airbnb/"><FONT
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face=Arial>http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/the-unforeseen-dangers-of-uber-and-airbnb/</FONT></A><FONT
size=2 face=Arial> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> It seems just like freon in refrigerators,
people often plunge ahead into using /implementing short-sighted things that
seem easy + beneficial in many ways, without really considering the wider, often
profound & long lasting repercussions/intended, unintended side-effects. It
seems if something gets a job done or fills a need, and people can make money
from it, often things move forward before society has had a chance to say 'wait
a minute'-lets look at this more deeply'. I stayed at an Air Bnb in Vancouver a
year ago, and though I thought it was great, much nicer than staying in a hotel,
now I hear that many homeowners in Vancouver have found that they can make more
money by continually renting out a space as an Air Bnb spot, that people who
want to rent on a long-term basis are having trouble finding spots or are being
told to vacate. So I unknowingly was also contributing to a problem that I
hadn't realized would transpire at that point. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Lori S.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca
href="mailto:gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca">Gregory C. Michalenko</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=all@gren.ca
href="mailto:all@gren.ca">all@gren.ca</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 07, 2016 9:39
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [All] a refreshing analysis of
Uber.</DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; DIRECTION: ltr; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">At
last someone is raising the really important issues about Uber. Read the
abstract.
<DIV>-Greg Michalenko<BR>
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[env-faculty-bounces@lists.uwaterloo.ca] on behalf of Heather Dorken
[hdorken@uwaterloo.ca]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 07, 2016 9:11
AM<BR><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:env-faculty@lists.uwaterloo.ca">env-faculty@lists.uwaterloo.ca</A><BR><B>Subject:</B>
[env-faculty] Revised - Geography and Environment Faculty Search - Daniel
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-CA>Dear colleagues,
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-CA>Please join us for a
research seminar with Daniel Cockayne, who is interviewing for an Assistant
Professor position in GEM. Daniel expects to defend his PhD in Geography at
the University of Kentucky this coming June. Daniel’s CV can be viewed in
Heather Dorken’s office (EV1-115). The seminar will be held from 10:00-11:30
in EV1-221 on Friday, April 15. We will provide coffee and cookies.</SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: #222222">“Does Uber own the cars now?” The normalization of
insecure work in San Francisco’s digital media sector</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>Abstract </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #222222">In this
presentation I argue that work in San Francisco’s digital media sector is
structured by both the short termism of financial technologies such as venture
capital that make demands of exponential growth and fast returns on investment
and the intense personal commitment individuals display to the their firm and
product. Drawing on eighteen months of fieldwork in San Francisco with
entrepreneurs, software developers, and other workers, I argue that
equity-financed small businesses in this sector reproduce and romanticize
insecure and uncertain working conditions for themselves and others. Negative
impacts of work are balanced against the perceived (if not real) benefits of
working for small businesses, such as personal autonomy and control over one’s
work, high status and respect, and the desire for glamorous working
environments. Through interviews with workers, I analyze how individuals
justify their own submission to un- or under-paid and stressful work, long
working hours, and considerable economic risk. I also examine how
entrepreneurs impose insecure working conditions on others. I use the example
of the ‘on-demand’ or, as it is more colloquially known, sharing economy to
demonstrate how labor is devalued through the consistent framing of this work
as ‘social’ rather than ‘economic,’ the imposition of punitive and
disciplinary peer-review systems, and the prevalent legal classification of
workers as contractors rather than employees in the U.S. context. I frame my
findings within cultural and feminist economic geography, the geographies of
work and labor, and critical studies of technology in geography to argue that
the workplace is a primary site not only for the reproduction of particular
systems of economic accumulation, but also the communication of power
relations that reproduce hegemonic standards of work, and normative models of
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-CA>Hope to see you
there,</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-CA>Johanna</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>Johanna Wandel<BR>Associate
Professor<BR>Interim Chair, Geography and Environmental
Management<BR>University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON N2L 3G1</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>519 – 888 – 4567 ext. 38669</SPAN></P>
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