take the nature of work. When new technologies allow firms and workers to bid on short-term tasks through gig-working platforms, it creates a vibrant market for small jobs – but potentially at the cost of more secure, dependable employment. When workers compete for work on task-sharing platforms, by bidding via mobile apps, what is their employment status? Are they employees, contractors or something else entirely? What rights do they have? Does this process empower them or dehumanise them? Nobody is quite sure: our approach to work was developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. What
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