Film-The Gig Economy (2020-67min) by Keif Roberts

Film starts 7:00, Q&A and discussion starts 8:15 PM

The director, Keif Roberts, will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A.

‘Be your own boss’ and ‘Work when and where you want’.  The gig economy promises freedom, flexibility and entrepreneurship to workers, but does it deliver?  More than one third of Americans work in the gig economy.  This alarming fact opens the recent documentary and journey of discovery by award-winning filmmaker Keif Roberts.  THE GIG ECONOMY is a head first dive into the precarious new world of app based work. Going on the job with workers and interviewing leading authors and scholars, THE GIG ECONOMY illuminates the perils and promise of the on-demand economy. Although piecemeal, transitory and temp work has been around for a long time, THE GIG ECONOMY identifies what is new and unique about this work today, the app and along with it, the algorithmic manager. Far from a fad, gig work is the future of work.