Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers—a sociological exploration that reads like a novel.

This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners—gig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborers—do when the economy suddenly collapses. In Side Hustle Safety Net, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle builds on interviews with nearly two hundred gig-based and precarious workers, conducted during the height of the pandemic, to uncover the unique ch...