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9781250071583 English 1250071585 "What's going to happen to my job?" That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves. The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Even many full-time and professional jobs are experiencing this precarious shift. Within a decade, a near-majority of the 145 million employed Americans will be impacted. Add to that the steamroller of automation, robots and artificial intelligence already replacing millions of workers and projected to "obsolesce" millions more, and the jobs picture starts looking grim. Now a weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy," with companies like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit allegedly "liberating workers" to become "independent" and "their own CEOs," hiring themselves out for ever-smaller jobs and wages while the companies profit. But this "share the crumbs" economy is just the tip of a looming iceberg that the middle class is drifting toward. Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers, by veteran journalist Steven Hill, is an expose that challenges conventional thinking, and the hype celebrating this new economy, by showing why the vision of the "techno sapien" leaders and their Ayn Rand libertarianism is a dead end. In Raw Deal , Steven Hill proposes pragmatic policy solutions to transform the US economy and its safety net and social contract, launching a new kind of deal to restore power back into the hands of American workers., Every day, innovative entrepreneurs pioneer bold economic ideas that change the way we live and work. Companies like Google, Apple, Oracle, Facebook and Twitter aren't the only ones shaping our economic future--there's another trend emerging that will change the ways we work and live. The "sharing economy," or the "collaborative consumption economy," includes companies like TaskRabbit, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Zaarly, and DocVacay who are purveyors of an economic system that revolves around sharing human and physical resources. This new aspect to the economy, Steven Hill argues, is a dead end for U.S. workers, as well as for the national economy.In "Raw Deal," Hill shows the "sharing economy" is a new and troubling component to what is an overall bad economy that undermines workers. Vulnerable freelancers and day laborers hire themselves out for ever smaller jobs and amounts of money, and it is only the companies who hire them who reap the big benefits. Hill argues that we must shift the support for American workers to one that is individual-based rather than workplace-based. Countering the onset of the freelance society and the new economy is the new civil rights and labor struggles of our time. This important book answers these questions and provides pragmatic solutions to adapt our economic system to its new realities, launching a new civil rights struggle capable of transforming the freelance society into a stakeholder society., The American workforce, which for decades has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is about to undergo an alarming transformation. Experts' best estimates say that by 2020 a majority of the 130 million employed Americans - approximately 60-70 million workers - will find themselves on increasingly shaky grounds, tantamount to being freelancers and day laborers. Even many full-time and professional jobs will experience this precarious shift. A weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street financial greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy"- "liberating workers" to become "independent" and "work for themselves." It turns out that the so-called "sharing" or "new" economy is just the tip of the larger and ever looming iceberg, a "freelance society," that the middle class and individual workers are hurtling toward with potentially disastrous results. With the sharing economy exacerbating the worst tendencies of the global economy, the freelance society will result in the ripping open of a widening "jobs gap" - a discrepancy between the number and quality of jobs needed for full employment and the number and quality of "jobs for humans" being produced by the economy. Shortfalls in jobs will result in shortfalls in demand and consumption, unleashing ongoing downward economic pressures that will make the Great Recession of 2008 a recurring event. Here, Steven Hill raises the specter of the "Economic Singularity," the tipping point at which our economy implodes from having been captured by powerful economic forces that extract the best of our nation for their own private use, leaving the rest of us to scramble for the crumbs via the sharing economy. This reality is just around the corner, if certain policy changes aren't made and regulations passed. Raw Deal provides pragmatic public policy solutions to adapt our economic system to its new realities and launch a new civil rights struggle capable of transforming the freelance society into a stakeholder society., The US workforce, which has been one of the world's most productive and wealthiest, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Even many full-time and professional jobs are experiencing this precarious shift. Within a decade, a near-majority of the 145 million employed Americans will be impacted. And now a weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy," with companies like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit allegedly "liberating workers" to become "independent" and "their own CEOs," hiring themselves out for ever-smaller jobs and wages while the companies profit. But this "share the crumbs" economy is just the tip of a looming iceberg -- a "freelance society," with the middle class drifting toward a troubling future. Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Naked Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers, by veteran journalist Steven Hill, is an exposé that challenges conventional thinking, and the hype celebrating this new economy, by showing why the vision of the "techno sapien" leaders and their Ayn Rand libertarianism is a dead end. In Raw Deal , Steven Hill proposes pragmatic policy solutions to transform the US economy and its safety net and social contract, launching a new kind of deal to restore power back to the hands of the American workforce.
9781250071583 English 1250071585 "What's going to happen to my job?" That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves. The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Even many full-time and professional jobs are experiencing this precarious shift. Within a decade, a near-majority of the 145 million employed Americans will be impacted. Add to that the steamroller of automation, robots and artificial intelligence already replacing millions of workers and projected to "obsolesce" millions more, and the jobs picture starts looking grim. Now a weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy," with companies like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit allegedly "liberating workers" to become "independent" and "their own CEOs," hiring themselves out for ever-smaller jobs and wages while the companies profit. But this "share the crumbs" economy is just the tip of a looming iceberg that the middle class is drifting toward. Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers, by veteran journalist Steven Hill, is an expose that challenges conventional thinking, and the hype celebrating this new economy, by showing why the vision of the "techno sapien" leaders and their Ayn Rand libertarianism is a dead end. In Raw Deal , Steven Hill proposes pragmatic policy solutions to transform the US economy and its safety net and social contract, launching a new kind of deal to restore power back into the hands of American workers., Every day, innovative entrepreneurs pioneer bold economic ideas that change the way we live and work. Companies like Google, Apple, Oracle, Facebook and Twitter aren't the only ones shaping our economic future--there's another trend emerging that will change the ways we work and live. The "sharing economy," or the "collaborative consumption economy," includes companies like TaskRabbit, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Zaarly, and DocVacay who are purveyors of an economic system that revolves around sharing human and physical resources. This new aspect to the economy, Steven Hill argues, is a dead end for U.S. workers, as well as for the national economy.In "Raw Deal," Hill shows the "sharing economy" is a new and troubling component to what is an overall bad economy that undermines workers. Vulnerable freelancers and day laborers hire themselves out for ever smaller jobs and amounts of money, and it is only the companies who hire them who reap the big benefits. Hill argues that we must shift the support for American workers to one that is individual-based rather than workplace-based. Countering the onset of the freelance society and the new economy is the new civil rights and labor struggles of our time. This important book answers these questions and provides pragmatic solutions to adapt our economic system to its new realities, launching a new civil rights struggle capable of transforming the freelance society into a stakeholder society., The American workforce, which for decades has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is about to undergo an alarming transformation. Experts' best estimates say that by 2020 a majority of the 130 million employed Americans - approximately 60-70 million workers - will find themselves on increasingly shaky grounds, tantamount to being freelancers and day laborers. Even many full-time and professional jobs will experience this precarious shift. A weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street financial greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy"- "liberating workers" to become "independent" and "work for themselves." It turns out that the so-called "sharing" or "new" economy is just the tip of the larger and ever looming iceberg, a "freelance society," that the middle class and individual workers are hurtling toward with potentially disastrous results. With the sharing economy exacerbating the worst tendencies of the global economy, the freelance society will result in the ripping open of a widening "jobs gap" - a discrepancy between the number and quality of jobs needed for full employment and the number and quality of "jobs for humans" being produced by the economy. Shortfalls in jobs will result in shortfalls in demand and consumption, unleashing ongoing downward economic pressures that will make the Great Recession of 2008 a recurring event. Here, Steven Hill raises the specter of the "Economic Singularity," the tipping point at which our economy implodes from having been captured by powerful economic forces that extract the best of our nation for their own private use, leaving the rest of us to scramble for the crumbs via the sharing economy. This reality is just around the corner, if certain policy changes aren't made and regulations passed. Raw Deal provides pragmatic public policy solutions to adapt our economic system to its new realities and launch a new civil rights struggle capable of transforming the freelance society into a stakeholder society., The US workforce, which has been one of the world's most productive and wealthiest, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Even many full-time and professional jobs are experiencing this precarious shift. Within a decade, a near-majority of the 145 million employed Americans will be impacted. And now a weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy," with companies like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit allegedly "liberating workers" to become "independent" and "their own CEOs," hiring themselves out for ever-smaller jobs and wages while the companies profit. But this "share the crumbs" economy is just the tip of a looming iceberg -- a "freelance society," with the middle class drifting toward a troubling future. Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Naked Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers, by veteran journalist Steven Hill, is an exposé that challenges conventional thinking, and the hype celebrating this new economy, by showing why the vision of the "techno sapien" leaders and their Ayn Rand libertarianism is a dead end. In Raw Deal , Steven Hill proposes pragmatic policy solutions to transform the US economy and its safety net and social contract, launching a new kind of deal to restore power back to the hands of the American workforce.