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16 - Old Problems and New Technologies in the American Workplace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2023

By
Jeffrey M. Hirsch
Edited by
Marc De Vos ,
Gordon Anderson  and
Evert Verhulp
Marc De Vos
Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Gordon Anderson
Affiliation:
Victoria University of Wellington
Evert Verhulp
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

Defining the employment relationship in the United States is not an endeavor for timid souls. The hallmark of American work law, especially its classification of employees and employers, is confusion. And that confusion has only intensified as emerging technologies have changed both the way that many people work and their relationship to the companies that profit from that work. The result of this trend has been an amplification of a long-existing problem: the exclusion of workers from workplace protections because they fall outside statutory definitions of the employment relationship.

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United Statesdigitalisationtechnologyplatform workemploymentremote workworkeremployment contractunionssocial insurancegig economyCovid-19 pandemicflexible workworking timeself-employedcollective bargaining
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The Cambridge Handbook of Technological Disruption in Labour and Employment Law , pp. 268 - 280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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