Gig Economy

An organizer with a couriers union discusses the ongoing campaign to improve the gig economy.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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