Article: The Shift to a "Gig Economy"

Richard Greenwald, writer and historian of Work, published this blog entry on Huffington Post that makes an excellent point: while everyone is paying attention to the short term economy, almost no one is paying attention to a fundamental shift in the nature of work and the growing numbers of freelancers in the economy.  Check it out:

Contingent, Transient and at Risk: Modern Workers in a Gig Economy

 America is transforming before our eyes, and with our focus on the short-term economic crisis, we are blind to what might very well be the most fundamental economic shift of the past 50 years: the nine-to-five, 40-hour-week job with benefits and some security is fast going the way of the compact disc. It still exists, barely, but is more of an echo than a modern reality. According to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report...Continued here.