The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections
I take issue with the word 'quietly'. The gig economy is pretty much designed to do an end-run around worker protections, starting off by denying the workers so much as an employment agreement.<p>The difference is all the more striking in countries that had above average worker protections in place. A large contributing factor here is that due to the internet's international nature it is very well possible that the enabler is in a jurisdiction that is entirely different from the one where the work is carried out.<p>Free-market fanatics see this all as a good thing but I'm really not happy with this rapid return to piece-work, which was outlawed in favor of hourly rates and minimum wages.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work</a>