Gig Economy Jobs Don’t Have to Be Awful | The Nation

 Now gig workers are realizing putting a crappy job on a platform isn’t particularly innovative. It merely replicates and intensifies an age-old reality of worker exploitation, casualized labor, and undermining of worker protections.

What is new, however, is perhaps something labor advocates haven’t anticipated: A few tech-driven on-demand companies are rediscovering the old rules of labor to inject fairness into the “new economy.” So what can labor learn from the brave new world of gigonomics?