Shelly Steward is an economic sociologist and applied scholar who studies the changing nature of work. She was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Fairwork Foundation, and has worked with the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, which focuses on identifying the challenges faced by workers today and developing policy-based solutions to address those challenges and build a more equitable economy. She is an expert on nonstandard work arrangements and the gig economy, and is lead author of the Gig Economy Data Hub in collaboration with Cornell University’s ILR School. She has been published in academic and popular publications on work and culture. She also teaches courses on technology and tech policy for the University of California’s Washington Program. Shelly received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. She holds an AB with highest honors in sociology from Harvard.
Work, culture, gig economy, qualitative methods, technology and society.
By Kelle Howson, Hannah Johnston, Nancy Salem, Robbie Warin, Fabian Ferrari, Yihan Zhu, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Daniel Arubayi, Srujana Katta, Shelly Steward, Matthew Cole, Adam Badger, and Mark Graham
What sort of working standards do gig economy remote workers face? This Fairwork report scores 17 platforms on the conditions they offer, and highlights the failure to offer basic standards of fairness across much of the cloudwork industry.
