Digital nomads living on the margins : remote-working laptop entrepreneurs in the gig economy

In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers. Digging beneath the superficial...

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Main Author: Thompson, Beverly Yuen, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]
Series: Emerald studies in alternativity and marginalization.
Subjects:
Flexible work arrangements > Social aspects.
Gig economy.
Employees > Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations.
Business & Economics > Labor > General.
Working patterns & practices.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781800715479
Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 pages).

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500 |a Includes index. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a chapter 1. Digital nomads, liquid modernity, and the COVID-19 pandemic -- chapter 2. Western millennials : demographics and socio-economic status -- chapter 3. Digital nomads : outcasts of the global bazaar economy -- chapter 4. Bright sided : positive psychology and its adaptation to digital nomadism -- chapter 5. Laptops, sunscreen, surfboards, and selfies : travel, tourism, and leisure practices of the digital nomads -- chapter 6. Seeking same : digital nomads seek community -- chapter 7. Marginalized identities, social justice, and volun-tourism -- chapter 8. Digital nomads as canaries in the coalmine : disruption and the future of work and leisure. 
520 |a In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers. Digging beneath the superficial newspaper articles that highlight beach-bound, bikinied workers, adorned with laptops, this book asks, what are the social implications of adopting the subcultural lifestyle known as 'Digital Nomadism'? This book explores the inherent social problems with this lifestyle. Examining how Digital Nomadism provides an individualistic fix for an otherwise downwardly-mobile millennial generation, Thompson demonstrates how this generation increasingly postpone markers of adulthood-purchasing a house, getting married, or having children-because of their financial insecurities. Thompson highlights that while being a Digital Nomad can provide a high quality of life while living on the beaches of Thailand, such avenues obscures their inabilities to afford a comfortable lifestyle in their home countries.  
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