Building Local Power

The Future of Work Isn't What You Think
Show page available at: https://ilsr.org/future-of-work-blp-episode-47/. Our co-director Stacy Mitchell sits down with Jobs With Justice Executive Director Sarita Gupta to discuss the state of labor rights in the "gig economy" and the struggles that workers are encountering in our current political and economic climate. Topics discussed, include: the relationship to power that many conversations on the "future of work" actually revolve around [1:43]; the threads that knit together attacks on labor rights with changes in the economy wrought by Silicon Valley disruption [13:10]; the fight on predictable scheduling and how it relates to other labor issues [18:00]; San Francisco's Retail Worker's Bill of Rights and the political constituencies for this rule change [21:30]; Amazon as a bad actor for "contingent work" and its role in the economy [29:35]; how existing state and federal labor laws could solve the problem of worker classification [34:01]; the fights in the states on care labor and the changing labor market [44:02]; and our guest's recommendation for reading [48:07]. Listen to all of our Building Local Power podcast episodes at our site, https://ilsr.org/building-local-power. Don't forget to subscribe, share with your friends, leave a recommendation on our podcast feeds, and join the conversation online using the #BuildingLocalPower hashtag!