The Gig Economy is a Failed Graduation Present
A critique of precarious labour in the modern university town.
Words by
Elena Rossi — Bocconi University
The promise made to the graduating class of 2014 — flexibility, autonomy, the dignity of being one's own boss — has aged poorly.
What looked like a labour-market revolution was, in retrospect, a venture-subsidised arbitrage on employment law.
The students I teach today are not naive about this. They are, however, running out of alternatives.
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