Gig Economy

For Labor Day, a selection of some of our favorite stories on the American worker in 2018.

• By Emily Moon

A new BLS survey shows that the percentage of Americans employed in most types of alternative work arrangements has actually declined since 2005. But that report only tells half the story.

• By Dwyer Gunn

The California Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling this week on the classification on independent contractors. The decision is expected to have big ramifications in California and elsewhere.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Start-ups are looking to create a gig economy in refugee camps through the use of blockchain technology, but will it work?

• By Sarah Holder

An advocate general at the European Court of Justice declared that Uber is not chiefly a digital platform, but a transportation services company, in a highly influential recommendation to the court.

• By Jack Denton

Riders in Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and West Virginia will pay $0.05 more per mile to cover the optional insurance.

• By Jack Denton

The gig is up. Emily Hong explores what the gig economy is, and what it will mean for the future of our working world.

• By Emily Hong

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Mark R. Warner

The company kind of has a point—we do need better labor laws. Just not the ones Silicon Valley is promoting.

• By Susie Cagle

This isn’t a matter of technology—a service economy by another name is still a service economy.

• By Susie Cagle