Workers are engaged in a sort of a lot of different efforts to improve their working lives. Om, you know, one hopeful direction that some workers have taken is through establish something called platform coops or platform co operatives. These essentially function like gig platforms, but with a different ownership and management model.
A third of American workers do gig work. In the third part of our series, The Future of Work, learn how the pandemic helped them discover their power.
Today’s show was produced by Will Reid, edited by Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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