Welcome to the Gig (Crime) Economy
The legitimate gig economy liberates employers from having permanent workers, contributing to government-imposed charges such as unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation, and they need not obey workplace regulations like minimum wage and overtime laws (Moynihan 2019). It is not hard to see the attractiveness of such a laissez-faire governmental approach for organized crime and black marketeers, especially enhancing the profitability of gray enterprises (i.e., part legitimate and part illegitimate like Enron). The gig transfers much financial risk to the worker-independent contractor from the hirer-principal, which not so much reinvents the relationship between high managerial agents of organized ...
Get The Gig Mafia now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
