Professor Brishen Rogers is named as a signer in this article from the Economic Policy Institute. Read the Full Article
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this blog post from In These Times. Read the Full Post
Professor Brishen Rogers co-authored this op-ed in the New York Times. Read the Full Article
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article by the Mercury News about a new ecosystem of companies that have developed thanks to the continued emergence of Uber. Read the full article
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article by Morningstar Advisor about Yellow Cab Cooperative Inc., San Francisco’s largest taxi company, which filed for bankruptcy protection Friday. Is the rapid rise of companies like Uber and Lyft to blame for the rise in the number of traditional taxi companies turning to chapter 11? Read the Full Story
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article by the Christian Science Monitor about a recent Seattle City Council vote that allows drivers for Uber and other ride-sharing companies to unionize. The vote highlights an on-going debate between companies like Uber, which say they are technology providers, and workers who say the firms are denying them benefits by classifying them as contractors. Read the Full Article.
Everyone is talking about the Future of Work, capitalization apparently mandatory. Pacific Standard has a series running on the Future of Work. Forbes and Fast Company have new dedicated sections on the Future of Work. Various big foundations are putting big money into researching the Future of Work. Some unions are doing that too. So, what is the Future of Work? Here are seven semi-informed thoughts on future labor markets, income distribution, and social movements. 1. Nobody really has much of a clue which sectors will be remade. Consider this: the VC firms that spot and fund those startups thought to be shaping the Future of Work by disrupting all our ordinary folkways? They expect almost all their startups to fail. Nobody knows where the next Uber is going to come from. Not to get all Hayekian here, but the market has its own logic. But… 2. We probably should not be panicking about technological unemployment or a robot revolution. See here David Autor’s great new paper “Why Are There Still so Many Jobs?” One is that it turns out to be awfully hard to automate …
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