The Gig Workers Fight Back: Precarious Work Expert Enda Brophy on Today’s ‘Techlash,’ Digital Labour Wins, ‘Green Shoots of Organizing’ and More
The gig economy is neither new, accidental nor inevitable. For decades companies have relentlessly turned to temp work, outsourcing, offshoring and other ways of limiting their obligations to workers — the unravelling of “a very important pact” that used to exist between employees and employers, says Enda Brophy, an associate professor of communication at Simon Fraser University who focuses on labour issues. But he sees signs the tide may be shifting.
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