{"product_id":"spent-behind-the-wheel-julietta-hua-9781517911843","title":"Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Are taxi drivers in today's era of the ride-hail app performing care work akin to domestic and household labor? So argue the authors of \u003ci\u003eSpent behind the Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e. Bringing together sociological and legal perspectives with feminist theoretical insights, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray examine the case study of contemporary professional passenger driving in the United States. On the one hand, they show, the rise of the gig economy has brought new attention to the industry of professional passenger driving. On the other hand, the vulnerabilities that professional drivers experience remain hidden. \u003cp\u003eDrawing on interviews with drivers, labor organizers, and members of licensing commissions, as well as case law and other published resources, Hua and Ray argue that working for ride-hail companies like Uber and Lyft shares similarities with driving for taxi companies in the impact on driver lives. Lyft and Uber sell the idea of industry disruption, but in fact they entrench long-standing modes of extracting the reproductive labor of their drivers for the benefit of consumer lives. Reproductive labor--conventionally understood as feminized labor--is extracted, but masked, behind the masculinized, racialized bodies of drivers. Professional driving is thus best understood alongside domestic and other gendered service work as reproductive labors devalued and often demonetized to benefit the national economy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpent behind the Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e is a must for readers interested in critical studies of technological change and the gig economy, showing how drivers' capacities are drained for the benefit of riders, corporations, and the maintenance of the racial state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julietta Hua, Kasturi Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517911842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517911843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.60d","brand":"Julietta Hua","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44068349837567,"sku":"9781517911843","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f02574af-1791-4a35-83cb-27fd9a603605.jpg?v=1685418491","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spent-behind-the-wheel-julietta-hua-9781517911843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}