Raw Deal: How the "Uber" Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers

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Fri, 12/04/2015 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Raw Deal: How the "Uber" Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers

Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with journalist Steven Hill about his new book, Raw Deal: How the "Uber" Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers. Hill challenges conventional thinking about the "sharing economy" by showing why the vision of the "techno sapien" leaders and their Ayn Rand libertariansim is a dead end. Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy," with companies like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit allegedly "liberating workers" to become independent and their own CEOs, hiring themselves out for ever-smaller jobs and wages while the companies profit.

STEVEN HILL is a Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is a veteran journalist and author of five books, including the internationally praised Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age, which was selected as one of the "Top Fifteen Books of 2010" by The Globalist. His articles and media interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Financial Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Project Syndicate, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Politico, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, Salon, Slate, BBC, C-SPAN, Fox News, NPR, PBS, Democracy Now, Austrian Public Broadcasting and many others. He lives in San Francisco, CA.
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