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The Digital Hustle

Chapter 1 describes the “digital hustle,” a shared set of coping strategies that both high- and low-wage workers use to find and coordinate work. While offering handyman services on Craigslist and maintaining a LinkedIn page may not appear similar at first, this chapter illustrates the hidden convergences behind these disparate practices. The digital hustle empowers workers to piece together patchworks of paid work in the margins of high- and low-wage labor markets, but because the digital hustle is unpaid, it may exacerbate inequalities between workers. The digital hustle isn’t only used to meet economic needs; it also plays an important role in the constitution of identity and provides a source of dignity within often humbling labor market conditions.