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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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The former secretary of labor on the need for a federal law requiring employers to pay for scheduled work 
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Many experts studying the topic of automation believe that the current rate of advancement is leading us into a future with less and less available
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As a new generation of online marketplaces, such as transportation service Uber, start to disrupt existing business models, the big question will be: how c
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In the face of looming ecological catastrophe, can unions help restructure work itself? And what’s gender inequality got to do with it? We posed these questions to Tom Malleson, assistant professor of Social Justice and Peace Studies at King’s University College at Western University in London, Ontario, and author of After Occupy: Economic Democracy in the 21st Century.
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"There's nothing about this that is a traditional employment relationship," Lyft CEO Logan Green told CNBC.
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In today’s digital gold rush, microtask workers are getting paid, though possibly shortchanged.
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What a brilliant opportunity we have to reinvent the world of work to deliver an abundance of meaningful jobs within an environment that is 100% human....
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The basic contract of working hard and getting paid will keep breaking downand AI will be to blame.
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Founder of TaskRabbit explains why the need for more flexible workspaces and lifestyles is leading people to become "taskers"
Jim Schreier's curator insight,
February 23, 2015 10:33 AM
Another important "trend" affecting the future of work.
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Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / Foter / CC BY. Article cross-posted from On the Commons. Written by Peter Barnes.
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In the world of Uber and Homejoy, workers have a "portfolio" instead of a job.
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What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. It's time to stop thinking of workers as cogs on a wheel.
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In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would
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Open offices have again become the workplace standard—but is this format good for productivity?
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Antiwork sentiment pervades society, but the basic income movement is one reason to be optimistic.
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How close will February's unemployment rate come to "full employment"? Not close enough, argues economist John Komlos, who believes the right to life implies a right to a job. Komlos is the author of “What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn’t Get in the Usual Principles Text."
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Businesses should collaborate with policymakers to ensure that the gig economy becomes a tool for economic mobility rather than just a mechanism to pay less for more.
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Sara Horowitz is in demand. The founder of the Freelancers Union, which has 250,000 independent contractors on its books, is struck by the attention from politicians and think tanks. Via Denis Pennel
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The 3 Biggest Myths Blinding Us to the Economic Truth
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VideoI've written about the five trends shaping the future of work quite a bit and it's actually how I start many of the keynotes I give at conference and events. However, I haven't done a video about this topic so I wanted to fix that!
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Companies like Uber, FancyHands, Airbnb and Snagajob are flourishing, driven by technology, a slow economic recovery and consumer demand. But what does that mean for today's workers?
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How would you like to live in an economy where robots do everything that can be predictably programmed in advance, and almost all profits go to the robots’ owners?
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In 1998, when the Winn-Dixie grocery store in Northeast Greensboro, North Carolina closed, it created a food desert—a community without easy access to food. For years, area residents tried to get another grocery chain to come in, but none wanted to come to the predominantly African-American, low-income town. The community finally came up with a solution—one that didn't rely on an outside company to come in. They put into motion a plan to open a food cooperative.
foodofhistory's curator insight,
February 19, 2015 6:31 PM
The coop is one of the few places where we have food choices that are democratic in nature. This new co-op is a glimmer of hope in the vastly conservative (and business-focused) state of North Carolina. |
