Named a Best Book of 2023 by theNew Yorkerand one of the Top 20 Best Books of 2023 byEsquiremagazine.
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 AllOver, it appears to check all her prerequisites for a good job. Its 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 AllOvers claims and its actions is wide, but the lure of financial stability and a flexible schedule is enough to keep Teresa driving forward.
Joanne McNeil, who often reports on how the human experience intersects with labor and technology brings blazing compassion and criticism toWrong Way, examining the treacherous gaps between the working and middle classes wrought by the age of AI. Within these divides, McNeil turns the unsaid into the unignorable, and captures the existential perils imposed by a nonstop, full-service gig economy.
Joanne McNeilis the author of
Lurking: How a Person Became a User. She was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundations Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. She lives in Boston.
Best Books of 2023,The New Yorker
Top 20 Best Books of 2023,Esquire
Endless Bookshelf Book of the Year
Best Tech Books of 2023,Los Angeles Times
AnEsquireBook Club Pick
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