Earlier this week, ZLI Executive Director Stewart Thornhill offered his thoughts on the sharing economy for NPR’s Marketplace. While a sharing economy can connect people looking for jobs with people who need tasks done quickly and easily, there is a downside. While it could cut costs on the corporate side, says Prof. Thornhill, this trend towards digitizing workers should greatly concern labor organizers and other workers.
You can read the entire article, “Is the Uber Economy Bad for Workers?”, on Marketplace’s website here.