On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane Audiobook (Free)

‘Nickled and Dimed for the Amazon age group,’ (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening tale of finding work in the automatic and time-starved globe of hourly low-wage labor

Following the local newspaper where she proved helpful as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines had been stocked with painkillers, and the personnel turnover was dizzying. In the brand new year, she travelled to North Carolina to work at a about On the Clock: What Low-Wage Function Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane call center, a place where also bathroom breaks had been timed to the second. And finally, Guendelsberger was hired at a SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA McDonald’s, narrowly escaping revenge-seeking customers who pelted her with condiments.

Across three jobs, and in 3 various areas of the country, Guendelsberger directly took part in the revolution changing the U.S. office. WITHIN THE CLOCK requires us behind the moments of the fastest-growing segment from the American labor force to understand the continuing future of work in America – and its own present. Until robots pack boxes, resolve billing issues, and make fast food, human beings supervised by AI will continue to complete the job. Guendelsberger displays us how employees went from being the most expensive element of creation to the cheapest – and exactly how low income jobs have already been remade to serve the ideals of effectiveness, at the expense of humanity.

IN THE CLOCK explores the lengths that half of Americans will head to in order to make a full time income, offering not only a better knowledge of the modern work environment, but also surprising answers to produce work even more humane for an incredible number of Americans.