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‘The Gig Is Up’ Director Shannon Walsh on How the Gig Economy Is Coming for All Our Jobs
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variety.comK.J. Yossman Being your own boss sounds like a dream. But for gig workers, that very premise has turned into a nightmare, as Shannon Walsh makes clear in her latest documentary, “The Gig Is Up.”“I’ve been interested in questions around capitalism and exploitation, and technology has always interested me as well,” says Walsh. “And I’m really interested in how this evolution of technology gives us a kind of a utopianism that so often isn’t the case.”“The Gig Is Up,” which received its U.K.
premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Friday, focuses on the so-called “ghost workers” who do a myriad of unseen jobs at the touch of a button: Uber drivers, Deliveroo riders and Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. (Better known as “MTurk,”.
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