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Essentially Dispossessed

2022-05-13

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As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged human bodies and economies across the world, millions of app-deployed drivers in the United States— primarily immigrants and subordinated racial minorities—faced a dangerous and perplexing paradox created by law. This paradox—their simultaneous treatment as independent contractors, excluded from economic security, and their newly anointed legal status as “essential workers”— rhetor...

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4090023

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