Research Reading List

AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines

What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers

Outsourced & Automated: How Al Companies Have Taken Over Government Decision-Making

Why so many people are paying to get their paychecks

What Happened to the Creator Economy?

Wellness Capitalism: Employee Health, the Benefits Maze, and Worker Control

Why Investors Love Vertical Labor Marketplaces

Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare

How Electric Vehicle Chargers Can Help Make Cities More Equitable and Resilient

Union decline and rising inequality in two charts | Economic Policy Institute

Credit Scoring and the Risk of Inclusion: Inequality, credit scoring, and alternative data

New Endorsements for College Athletes Resurface an Old Concern: Sex Sells

The Beating Heart of the US Labor Movement Was at Labor Notes

Organizing All People

National survey of gig workers paints a picture of poor working conditions, low pay

‘This is our time’: How women are taking over the labor movement

Is private equity joining—or co-opting—the employee ownership movement?

Data: the new cotton

The Next Frontier of Labor Organizing: Food-Delivery Workers

The gig workers fighting back against the algorithms

‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you

How Amazon’s Immigrant Workers Organized to Win a Union on Staten Island

Adam Mosseri Says He Wants Big Tech to Give Up Control

Meet the off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry running

Workers Are Trading Staggering Amounts of Data for 'Payday Loans'

Solopreneurs are Changing the Face of the Economy

Oakland Cannabis Sellers, Once Full of Hope, Face a Harsh Reality

Black Farmers Fear Foreclosure as Debt Relief Remains Frozen

The Rent Crisis Summed Up in One Chart

Silicon Valley’s Blind Spot: The anonymous forum where tech dissent gets commodified

Poison in the Air

Golden State Green Rush: Is Cannabis Equity Reparations for the War on Drugs?

Three ways Singapore is designing urban farms to create food security

The Bay Area residents fighting a mysterious startup taking over their quiet street

VCs are financing an economy of servants

A New AI Lexicon: CARE. Care as a Tool, Care as a Weapon

The Side Hustle Stack

The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer

Name of the Game: “Creator” and “influencer” aren’t different jobs. Who does it serve to pretend they are?

The Creator MBA

Aella: Sex Work, Building an Audience, and Monetizing a Community

The ravenous economy around delivering your dinner

How Trump’s Trade War Built Shein, China’s First Global Fashion Giant

Special Delivery: The big food delivery apps are killing local restaurants. Dozens of locally owned services are proving there’s a better alternative

The Benefits of Ordering Dinner From Instagram

The Gig Economy’s Business Model Is a Racial Justice Issue

The ultimate guide to the creator economy

My Marketplace Strategy: Go Niche

Tech Companies Don't Need to Be Creepy to Make Money

Innovation and the incinerated tongue: Notes on hot chicken, race, and culinary crossover

Shein: The TikTok of Ecommerce

Cashing in on Clubhouse

"Would you sell me pictures of your feet" - Webworm with David Farrier

Scoop: TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z

1 big thing: Amazon rollups are the hottest deals

Decoding Stigma: Designing for Sex Worker Liberatory Futures

1 big thing: Content creators as the new startups

A New Kind of Cooperative in Oakland Fights Against Speculative Development

Can Crowdfunded Real Estate Create Equitable Economic Development?

Money for Nothing

LA Mall Purchase Would Be the Biggest Victory Yet for Community-Driven Development

What Words We Use — and Avoid — When Covering People and Incarceration

Shadow Bans, Dopamine Hits, and Viral Videos, All in the Life of TikTok Creators

“I wanted to buy a marine aquarium”: Why people around the world are flocking to OnlyFans

The Ponzi Career

The Ownership Economy: Crypto & The Next Frontier of Consumer Software

“Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading

How Jüsto became an investor darling with a basic grocery app

Airbnb’s Location Ratings as Anti-Black Spatial Disinvestment in Washington D.C.

The Economy of One (2PM)

The FinTech Industry Wants to Give Desperate Workers an Advance on Their Next Paycheck. It’s a Trap.

New Models for Community Shareholding: Equity Investing in Neighborhood Real Estate Investment Trusts and Cooperatives

Should Renters Earn a Piece of the Neighborhood Pie They Helped Bake?

How states can empower local ownership for a just recovery

How a Kansas City neighborhood is protecting renters while investing in itself

Philly’s Kensington Corridor is Taking Back Power over Economic Development

When Drivers are in the Drivers’ Seat for Taxi and Ride-Hail Companies

The software that shapes workers' lives

Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination?

OnlyFans Is a Billion-Dollar Media Giant Hiding in Plain Sight

TikTok & ByteDance Report

Zebra IQ 2020 Gen Z Trends Report

Aspen Institute: The True Cost of Caregiving

McKinsey: Tech for Good - Using Tech to Smooth Disruption & Improve Well-Being

SOCIAL EQUITY INVESTING RIGHTING INSTITUTIONAL WRONGS

Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

Financing Innovation