Shelly Steward is the director of the Future of Work Initiative, a part of the Economic Opportunities Program at the Aspen Institute. She is an expert on nonstandard work arrangements and the gig economy and lead author of the Gig Economy Data Hub in collaboration with Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School. Steward is also a research associate with the Fairwork Project based at the Oxford Internet Institute, which assesses the working conditions of gig economy platforms around the world, and teaches courses on technology and tech policy for the University of California’s Washington Program. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and the Journal of Consumer Culture, among others.
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