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Gig worker employment fights like those in California pit flexibility against a livable wage – but 'platform cooperatives' could ensure workers get both

  • Written by Juliet B. Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College
Gig worker employment fights like those in California pit flexibility against a livable wage – but 'platform cooperatives' could ensure workers get bothCalifornia's Proposition 22 would reverse a new law that made Uber and Lyft drivers employees. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Voters in California will decide in November whether Uber drivers and other gig economy workers should be considered employees or contractors – a question that’s been debated and litigated for many years...

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