In Too Deep: Class and Mothering in a Flooded Community

Abstract

point to finish the paragraph discussing other studies that note that "long driving" impacts the liver and that there are health tolls. But then the focus in the following paragraph turns to 2019 ADA suits against Uber and Lyft. Maybe there are no answers to these questions. But since the researchers were at the NYTWA, perhaps someone in charge of the archives, or a New York City oncologist, could explain the potential link? Or perhaps they should not even raise the questions, just note that this document suggested that driving led to more considerable health concerns than previously expected? I also found the conclusion, subtitled "Drivers in the Time of COVID-19," to be somewhat misleading. There’s much more focus on California’s AB-5, which presumed workers to be employees rather than independent contractors, and the resulting Proposition 22 (which created a third category of worker outside the dichotomy of 1099 and W-2 classification). AB-5 did go into effect at the start of 2020, but describing this chapter as focusing on the Covid impact—especially when there’s minimal mention of this—feels odd. There’s much more focus on the pandemic in Chapter Two, on financializing drivers’ lives, than in this final chapter. Those concerns aside, I found this book to be an interesting read that provides a unique framework for examining the exploitation of drivers’ labor—and selves—in the Uber economy.