Gig economy has roots in anti-labor tactics: Harvard researcher
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Gig economy companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash rely on a model that resembles anti-labor practices employed decades before by the U.S. construction industry, and could lead to similar erosion in earnings for workers, a researcher found.
Mark Erlich, a fellow at Harvard University Law School and a retired carpenters union leader, found in a new paper that the U.S. construction industry’s shift from classifying full-time employees to independent contractors laid the groundwork for today’s gig economy.