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Book Description

It’s difficult to ignore the effects of the "great unbundling" today. The digital revolution has already changed the nature of media, personal health, finance, and other economic and industrial sectors in recent years. As this O’Reilly report reveals, the modern workforce—including the very notion of a "job" itself—is undergoing a similar transformation.

Unbundling is the breaking up of traditional packages of goods and services into their component parts, eventually to be rebundled in new ways. In the same fashion, various job components—income, structure, social connections, meaning, and (in the US) access to healthcare—are being unbundled as well.

Authors Nick Grossman and Elizabeth Woyke explore how changes in the workplace bundle are drawing more and more people into the part-time labor force, aka the "gig economy," including traditional freelancers, craftspeople, independent contractors, micro-entrepreneurs, and shift workers.

Gig workers now have access to many jobs from many sources, but they also face significant challenges in obtaining security in today’s economy. This report describes how the gig economy is shaping up.

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Serving Workers in the Gig Economy
    1. The Great Unbundling
    2. The Unbundling of the Job
    3. The Gig Worker’s Dilemma
      1. Worker Classification: W2 Employee vs 1099 Contractor
    4. Support Services for Gig Workers: Today’s Emerging Ecosystem
      1. Job Discovery and Scheduling
      2. Finance and Administration
      3. Benefits, Healthcare, and Insurance
      4. Identity and Reputation
      5. Community and Organizing
      6. Education and Training
      7. Facilities and Equipment
    5. Policy Implications
      1. Is the “Gig Economy” Here to Stay, or Is It Just a Fad?
      2. “Dependent Contractor” Status: A Viable Third Way?
      3. Access to Data as a 21st-Century Worker’s Right
      4. Data-Centric Regulatory Reform
    6. Conclusion: This Is Just the Beginning
  2. A. Company Profiles
    1. BlueCrew
    2. Breeze
    3. Coworker.org
    4. Dispatcher
    5. Even
    6. Freelancers Union
    7. Hurdlr
    8. Karma
    9. Peers
    10. SherpaShare
    11. Shift Messenger
    12. Stride Health
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