[TASC Luncheon] Is Big Tech Offering a Good Gig or a Raw Deal?

[Robert Kirby]

At Café Baklava Mediterranean Grill, 341 Castro Street, Mountain View

Tuesday December 10th, 11:45 AM

More info: Bob Kirby  (650) 417-5740

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Steven Hill                                                                               

Is Big Tech Offering a Good Gig or a Raw Deal?

 

Steven Hill is a Silicon Valley-based journalist and the author of seven books, including Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers and The Startup Illusion: How the Internet Economy Threatens Our Welfare (in German).  Mr. Hill’s other books include Expand Social Security Now: How to Ensure Americans Get the Retirement They Deserve, Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age, 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy and Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics. His articles, opeds and media interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Wired, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg Business, BBC, C-Span, Fox News, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle and many others.

 

Most recently, Steven was journalist-in-residence at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), and also a former senior fellow with the New America Foundation and the 2016 Holtzbrinck fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Mr. Hill is a frequent speaker at academic, government, NGO and business events, speaking on a wide range of topics related to politics, economics, global complexity, the digital economy, future of work and artificial intelligence, among others.

 

Steven will talk about his recent books regarding the gig economy and Big Tech, and discuss the impact of the recent passage of California Assembly Bill AB5 (which forces companies to treat their “independent contractors,” such as Uber/Lyft drivers, as regular employees). He will offer potential solutions for how to “disrupt the disruptors,” to ensure that workers and society benefit from digital technologies and innovation.