دانلود کتاب Raw Deal – معامله خام

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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…