Binding: Paperback
Description: Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker and one of the Top 20 Best Books of 2023 by Esquire magazine. For years Teresa has passed from one job to the next settling into long stretches of time struggling to build her career in any field or unstick herself from an endless cycle of labor. The dreaded move from one gig to another is starting to feel unbearable. When a recruiter connects her with a contract position at All Over it appears to check all her prerequisites for a good job. It's a fintech corporation with progressive hiring policies and a social justice - minded mission statement. Their new service for premium members: a functional fleet of driverless cars. The future of transportation. As her new - hire orientation reveals the distance between All Over's claims and its actions is wide but the lure of financial stability and a flexible schedule is enough to keep Teresa driving forward. Joanne Mc Neil who often reports on how the human experience intersects with labor and technology brings blazing compassion and criticism to Wrong Way examining the treacherous gaps between the working and middle classes wrought by the age of AI. Within these divides Mc Neil turns the unsaid into the unignorable and captures the existential perils imposed by a nonstop full - service gig economy.
Title: Wrong Way
Author(s): Mcneil Joanne
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374610661
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 11/14/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction